WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

MODULE-I: History of wireless communication
Concept of mobile and personal communication, wireless cellular platform, the design fundamentals of cellular networks, frequency reuse, spectrum capacity enhancement techniques, co-channel and adjacent channel interference, location management, handoff management; Concept of mobile IP for mobility management issues.

MODULE-II: Propagation Models for Wireless Networks
Two-ray ground reflection model, a micro-cell propagation model, a macro-cell propagation model, shadowing model, large scale path loss and shadowing, multi path effects in mobile communication, linear time variant channel model; Concept of coherent bandwidth, Coherent time, Doppler Shift - Effect of velocity of
the mobile, models for multi path reception, mobile communication antennas.

MODULE-III: Multiple access techniques in wireless communications
frequency division multiple access technology (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), space division multiple access (SDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA); spectral efficiency of different wireless access technologies, spectral efficiency in FDMA system, spectral efficiency in TDMA system, spectral efficiency for DS-CDMA system.

MODULE-IV: Second Generation Mobile Networks-GSM
Architecture and protocols, access technology, call set up procedure, 2.5 G networks; evolution to GPRS, concept of data communication on GPRS, session management and PDP Context, data transfer through GPRS network and routing.

ADDITIONAL MODULE (Terminal Examination-Internal)
Evolution of modern mobile wireless communication systems: Personal area networks (PAN), Public wide-area wireless networks, wireless Local Area Networks; Brief introduction to 3G – The universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) Basic idea of satellite mobile communication systems.