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21⟩ What is sectorization of a cell in GSM Technology?

★ Sectorization is a process to cut down equipment costs in a cellular network. It influences in traffic load and cell size

★ Sectorization reduces co-channel interference, when applied to clusters of cells

★ The maximum traffic capacity of sector-ed antennas is more than omni directional antennas.

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22⟩ What is frequency Re-use in GSM Technology?

★ Frequency re-use is the key factor of cellular network ability for increasing both coverage and capacity.

★ Different frequencies are utilized by adjacent cells; however problem does not arise to determine the cell sufficiently far apart using the same frequency.

★ Reuse distance and the reuse factor are the two elements that influence frequency re usability

★ The frequency is 1/K, where K is the number of cells that cannot use the same frequencies for transmission.

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23⟩ What is transmitted power control in GSM Technology?

★ Transmitted power control is one of the technical mechanism used within some networking devices

★ TPC is used for preventing too much unwanted interference among wireless networks

★ The central idea is to automatically reduce the transmission output power used, when other networks are within the same range.

★ TPC reduces interference problems and increases the battery capacity

The power levels of a single mobile device can be reduced by 6dB

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24⟩ What is discontinuous transmission in GSM Technology?

★ Discontinuous Transmission, also known as DTX in short is a method of momentarily powering down a mobile set when there is no voice input to the set.

★ The overall efficiency of a wireless voice communication system is optimized by DTX.

★ Each speaker in a two way conversation speaks slightly less than half of the time.

★ The workload of the components in the transmitter amplifiers are made easy and reduces interference.

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27⟩ What is equalisation in GSM Technology

An adaptive equalizer is employed by a GSM receiver for overcoming the impact of non-ideal channel characteristics which are caused by multipath propagation.

Adaptive equalizer is required because the channel characteristics are often changing fast.

Tuning the for each time slot is done by the equalizer.

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28⟩ What is interleaving in GSM Technology

★ Time diversity in a signal communication system is obtained by using Interleaving.

★ The possibility of losing whole bursts will be decreased by interleaving

★ Total 456 bits from convolution encoder, including 20ms of speech, is subdivided into eight blocks. Each block consists of 57 bits.

★ All these blocks are transmitted in consecutive time slots.

★ Enough information is available in 7 blocks, in case one of the blocks is lost due to burst errors. This enables whole segment recovery by using error correction.

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29⟩ What is speech coding in GSM Technology?

★ Speech coding is all about turning voice into digital form

★ Speech is inherently analog, as GSM is a digital system.

★ The digitization is employed by ISDN, and the current telephone systems that are used for multiplexing voice lines, with high speed trunks, optical fiber lines is done by Pulse Code Modulation(PCM)

★ The PCM output is 64 kbps, which is too high over a radio link in feasibility

★ The 64 kbps signal is redundant

★ The algorithm used in conventional cellular is Vector Sum Excited Linear Predictive speech compression.

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30⟩ What is channel coding in GSM Technology?

★ The data rate for the radio channel is 270 kbps

★ The data rate is split into 8 full rate or 16 half rate traffic channels, along with signaling channels

★ In order to have the maximum chance for detecting and correcting errors, the code is complex in a typical propagation path

★ Forward Error Correction is applied in order to get the speech coder encryption, coding and interleaving in a sophisticated way

★ The data is sent as bursts in 577 mus time slots. Each contains 116 encrypted bits

★ Every TDMA frame consists of 8 or 16 time slots

★ Transmit time slots are staggered, so that at some instant the mobile station will not receive the same instants while transmitting, which enables the simplifying the filtering requirements

★ At least one spare slot between transmit and receive is available with this scheme.

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31⟩ Do you know what is frequency re-use?

★ Frequency Reuse is one of the techniques for improving capacity and spectral efficiency

★ Commercial wireless systems are based on Frequency Reuse, that involves the partitioning of an RF radiation area into cell segments.

★ A frequency that is far enough away from the frequency in the bordering segment is used by one segment of the cell.

★ Similar frequency is used at least two cells apart from each other.

★ This practice enables various cellular providers to have several customers for a given site license.

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32⟩ What is cell splitting in GSM Technology?

★ The process of dividing the radio coverage of a cell site within a wireless telephone system into new cell sites is known as Cell Splitting

★ Additional capacity within the region can be achieved by using Cell Splitting

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33⟩ What is WPS in GSM Technology?

★ The wireless equivalent of the Government Emergency Telecommunications Services is referred to WPS.

★ WPS provides access based on the priority to wireless telephone service during emergencies

★ Certain governing bodies such as authorized federal, officials of state and local, and certain key private sector officials can be put first in line for an open cellular channel by dialing 272 just before entering the number being called

★ It is T-Mobile, which began offering an initial operating capability in New York and Washington and had it deployed later.

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34⟩ What is MA in GSM Technology?

★ The Absolute Radio Frequency Carrier Number is used in hopping sequence pattern are determined by certain contents of the test set's Mobile Allocation Table.

★ The hopping sequence beginning point is known as Mobile Allocation Index Offset.

★ The first entry of Mobile Allocation is corresponds to zero.

★ An MA table is a list of ARFCNs. They present in Cell Allocation Table which shares the same frequency band.

★ A separate MA table is allocated for each frequency band.

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35⟩ What is MAIO in GSM Technology?

★ Mobile Allocation Index Offset is applied to same timeslot of different TRX.

★ Every time slot will have a separate / different MAIO, as they are using the same HSN

★ In case all time slot have the same HSN, a their sequence need to be started at different frequencies

★ The MAIO will set the index of the sequence for each timeslot.

★ The HSNs do not run the same pseudo random sequence at the same moment.

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36⟩ What is synthesised frequency hopping in GSM Technology?

★ The GSM's number of frequencies is 124

★ When the operators do not have enough frequencies, the range to be used is CDS 1800

★ Frequency hopping is used when the frequencies used are more with high interference.

★ Frequency hopping is utilized to equalize interference for the frequencies that are used in their range.

★ One of the frequency hoppings is Synthesised Frequency Hopping

★ Synthesized hopping allows the transmitter to change its frequency based on time slots. Because of this process SFH is known as fast hopping.

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37⟩ What is base band frequency hopping in GSM Technology?

★ Base Band Frequency Hopping is one of the frequency hopping techniques.

★ Time division multiplexing mapping is used in BBFH

★ BBFH is supported by a base station having a broadband transceiver

★ Physical channels are permitted by BBFH based upon mobile subscribers' communication with the base station.

★ In this, static transceiver frequencies are used while operating with broadband transceiver. This method is an exclusive of switching communication signals between transceivers.

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38⟩ What is cycling frequency hopping in GSM Technology?

★ In Cycling Frequency Hopping, the frequencies are changed, in every TDMA frame.

★ For ex: f1,f2,f3 …. Where f1,f2,f3 are frequency hopping sequence numbers

★ The specified setting parameter is HSN.

★ Hopping Sequence Number is set to 0 in a cyclic sequence hopping.

★ The sequence of frequencies starts from the lowest absolute frequency number in a set of frequencies specified for a specific channel group, to highest absolute frequency number.

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39⟩ What is HSN in GSM Technology?

★ Hopping sequence number is utilized, to spread the interference between all cells that uses the same hopping TCHs.

★ The correlation between closely located cells can be avoided by using HSN.

★ HSN of zero corresponds to the cyclic hopping sequence, and 1 through 63 corresponds to various pseudo random patterns.

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40⟩ What is DTX in GSM Technology?

★ Discontinuous Transmission is one of the methods which is based on the advantage of the fact that a person speak less

★ Nearly 40% of time in general conversation, the transmitter is turned off during silence periods

★ Mobile phone power conservation is an added benefit of DTX

★ Voice Activity Detection is the most important component of DTX

★ DT X distinguishes between voice and noise inputs.

★ The transmitter is turned off when a voice signal is misinterpreted as noise. This causes annoying effect known as clipping is heard at the receiver's end

★ Comfort noise is created at the receiving end, in order to ensure the non-connection.

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