EC118 Wireless Communication 3L:0T:0P 3 Credits

1 Introduction to Wireless Communication Systems: Evolution of mobile radio communications; examples of wireless comm. systems; paging systems; Cordless telephone systems; overview of generations of cellular systems, comparison of various wireless systems.

2 Introduction to Personal Communication Services (PCS): PCS architecture, Mobility management, Networks signalling. The Cellular Concept and Multiple Access Techniques: A basic cellular system, Frequency Reuse basic theory of hexagonal cell layout, spectrum efficiency, FDM/TDM, Cellular System, channel allocation schemes, Handover Analysis, cellular CDMA, Soft capacity, Erlang capacity comparison, multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA.

3 2G Networks: Second generation, digital, wireless systems: GSM, IS136 (D-AMPS), IS-95 CDMA. Global system for Mobile Communication (GSM) system overview: GSM Architecture, Mobility Management, Network signalling, mobile management, voice signal processing and coding. Spread Spectrum Systems- Cellular code Division Access Systems-Principle, Power Control, effects of multipath propagation on code division multiple access.

4 2.5G Mobile Data Networks: Introduction to Mobile Data Networks, General Packet Radio Services (GPRS): GPRS architecture, GPRS Network nodes, EDGE, Wireless LANs, (IEEE 802.11), Mobile IP. Third Generation (3G) Mobile Services: Introduction to International Mobile Telecommunications 2000 (IMT 2000) vision, Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), and CDMA 2000, Quality of services in 3G, Introduction to 4G.

5 Introduction to Wireless Channels and Diversity: Fast Fading Wireless Channel Modelling, Rayleigh/Ricean Fading Channels, BER Performance in Fading Channels, Introduction to Diversity modelling for Wireless Communications.

Name of Authors / Books /Publishers

1 Theodore S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice”
2nd Edition (2008), 2008
2 Andrew J Viterbi, “CDMA Principles of spread spectrum communications”,
Addition Wesley, 1995
3 J S Lee and L E Miller, “CDMA systems engineering handbook”, Artech
House,1998
4 Marvin K Simon, Jim K Omura, Robert A Scholtz, Bary Klevit, “Spread
Spectrum Communications”, 1995
5 Sergio Verdu, “Multiuser Detection”, Cambridge University Press, 1998
6 Andrew S Tanenbaum, “Computer Network”, Pearson/ PHI, 4th edition, 2009