Wireless Communications

(3 Credits)

This course provides the basics for the design and analysis of wireless communication systems. Topics covered include introduction to wireless communication systems and applications (basic terminology, wireless applications and requirements, overview of cellular system generations and wireless access standards), modeling and classification of wireless channels (path loss models, large-scale and small-scale fading), description of digital modulation techniques for wireless channels, performance measures of modulation techniques (temporal/spectral characteristics, energy efficiency, error rate), optimum receiver design for wireless channels, performance analysis of communication systems over fading channels, fading mitigation techniques (transmit diversity, receive diversity, multiple-input multiple-output communication), digital communication over frequency-selective wireless channels (equalization, multi-carrier transmission) and multi-user communications (cellular systems, multiple access). Examples will be provided from state-of-the-art cellular and wireless LAN standards.