Principles of wireless communication analysis and design. Digital communication basics, cellular radio, wireless PCS communications, multiple access techniques, channel coding and equalization, and standards of digital cellular/PCS systems.

This course is meant to serve as a broad survey of all the issues involved with wireless communications, serving as a bridge from antenna design and propagation modeling to data networking. Some topics will be covered with some depth, while others will not. Topics to be covered, following the outline of the Rappaport course textbook.

• Introduction (Chapter 1)

• Modern Wireless Communication Systems (Chapter 2)

• Cellular System Design Concepts (Chapter 3)

• Mobile Radio Propagation: Large-Scale Path Less (Chapter 4)

• Mobile Radio Propagation: Small-Scale Fading and Multipath (Chapter 5)

• Modulation Techniques for Mobile Radio (Chapter 6)

• Equalization, Diversity, and Channel Coding (Chapter 7)

• Speech Coding (Chapter 8)

• Multiple Access Techniques (Chapter 9)

• Wireless Networking and Standards (Chapters 10 and 11)

 Theodore S. Rappaport Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice,
 Second Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-042232-0, 2002.

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