ELEN E4703
- Introduction to Wireless Communication Systems
- mobile radio, cellular telephony
- Systems Design Fundamentals
- cellular concept, hexagonal cell model, channel assignment, handoff
strategies, channel reuse
- Trunking Theory
- grade of service, traffic intensity, blocking, queuing, Erlang B&C formulas
- Mobile Radio Propagation
- large-scale path loss, antenna fundamentals, radiation intensity, system
parameters, gain, effective area, power transmission, reciprocity,
Friis formulas
- Reflection of Radio Waves
- Snell's laws, Fresnel reflection coefficients, ground reflection model,
diffraction, Fresnel zones, scattering, path loss models
- Fading and Multipath
- factors that affect fading, Doppler shifts, multipath channel, flat vs.
frequency selective and fast vs. slow fading
- Modulation techniques
- amplitude modulation, single sideband, frequency and phase modulation,
digital modulation, pulse shaping, signal space and probability of error,
spread spectrum
- Equalization, Diversity, Channel Coding
- adaptive equalization; microscopic and macroscopic diversity;
polarization, frequency, and time diversity;
coding, block codes, convolutional codes
- Multiple Access Techniques
- frequency-, time-, code-, and space-division multiple access; packet radio