Course Outline:

Overview of mobile communications, characterization and modeling of wireless fading dispersive channels, optimum receiver structure, transmission performance in fading channels, diversity and performance improvement, co-channel interference, spread spectrum and multiple access, capacity analysis in cellular environments.

• Overview: mobile communication systems, cellular concept and frequency reuse, user mobility
• Classification of channels and channel models: long-term and short-term fading, Rayleigh and Rician fading, power spectral of diffusive signals, basic radio transmission theory, path loss, shadowing
• Digital transmission over fading dispersive channels: diversity representation of fading channels, optimum receiver, maximum-likelihood detection, transmission performance over fading channels
• Diversity: diversity schemes, linear combining strategies, optimum combining, SNR improvement, distribution of SNR for independent and correlated diversity channels, transmission accuracy improvement by diversity
• Multiple access interference: cochannel interference and adjacent channel interference, multiple lognormal interferers, multiple Rayleigh/Rician interferers, distribution of interference, outage probability
• Code-Division Multiple Access: spread spectrum modulation and multiple access schemes, modulation and demodulation in multipath and multiple access interference, capacity analysis.