EE434

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Spring 2003

1. Brief introduction to wireless communication systems and economics

2. Wireless communication systems:

    1. Radio telephony and data communication systems

    2. Fixed systems, Mobile systems, Broadcast systems

3. Radio telephony

    1. Cellular concept
    2. Traffic calculation
    3. Capacity

4. Propagation concepts in mobile radio: Large scale path loss

Radio wave propagation, propagation models and mechanisms, reflection, diffraction, scattering

5. Fading and multipath

Small-scale multipath, mobile multipath channels, small-scale fading, multipath fading channels

6. Modulation techniques

7. Multiple access technologies

8. Networking and planning

    1. Spectrum use

      Co-channel and adjacent channel interference,

    2. Effects of nonlinearities: Intermodulation interference, desensitization, blocking, cross modulation, etc.
    3. Network management

Textbook: T.S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice”, 2 nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2002.

Prerequisite knowledge:

    1. EMT
    2. Probability
    3. Signals and systems

2 MT, 1 Final

75 % attendance on total # of lecture hours is required. This is a “Pass/Fail” condition.