Wireless Communication Systems

Graduate

176 Winter 2027 Academic Calendar Overview of mobile communications, the characterization and modeling of time-variant fading and/or dispersive channels, digital communication system performance over fading dispersive channels, diversity reception, optimum receiver, trellis-coded modulation, (fundamentals, performance evaluation and applications to mobile communications), spread spectrum systems, and code division multiple access (CDMA), TDMA, FDMA, multiple access schemes, CSMA, Aloha. Concepts on wireless ad hoc networks will also be introduced, MAC, routing, QoS protocols for these networks will be covered. (3 lecture hours a week.) (May be offered as a cross-career course with ELEC-4400). 177 Winter 2027 Academic Calendar