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Unit 1: Introduction to Wireless Communication Lectures-2
Introduction to Wireless Communication, Types of Wireless Communication,
Frequencies used and Ranges, Basic Challenges and Requirements, Block
Schematic Diagram, Evolution of Wireless Communication-Different
Generations
Unit 2: RF and microwave signal propagation in wireless channel
Lectures-5
Propagation mechanism- Free space propagation and Friis transmission
formula, reflection, refraction, diffraction and scattering; Large scale signal
propagation Path-loss, Introduction to shadowing and log-normal
shadowing; Link-budget calculation.
Unit 3: Wireless fading channel Lectures-10
Multipath and small scale fading, Doppler shift, Statistical multipath channel
models Clerks Model, Rayleigh and Rician fading channel; Narrowband and
wideband fading channel, Power delay profile - average and r.m.s delay
spread, coherence bandwidth and coherence time, Flat and frequency
selective fading, slow and fast fading, average fade duration and level
crossing rate.
Unit 4: Diversity techniques in wireless communication Lectures-8
Different types of diversity techniques Time diversity, Frequency diversity,
Antenna diversity; Antenna diversity Space diversity, polarization diversity
and pattern diversity; Receiver antenna diversity Selection combining,
Maximal-Ratio-Combining (MRC) and Equal gain combining; Outage
probability, average SNR, average BER/SER; Introduction to Rake receiver;
Transmit diversity Alamouti scheme
Unit 5: Basic digital modulation techniques used in wireless
communications Lectures-6
Modulation schemes: BPSK, QPSK and variants, QAM, MSK and GMSK,
multicarrier modulation, OFDM; Performance of basic digital modulation
techniques over wireless channels; Equalization: linear-ZFE and adaptive, DFE
Basic principles of multiple access methods- FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, SDMA,
OFDMA
Unit 6: Cellular Communications Lectures-7
Introduction to Cellular Communications, Cell structure, Frequency reuse, Cell
splitting, Channel assignment, Handoff, interference, capacity, power control
Wireless Standards: Overview of 2G and 3G cellular standards - GSM, EDGE,
GPRS, WCDMA.
Module 7: Brief introduction to Satellite Communication Systems
Lectures-4
Geostationary and non-geostationary orbits; Global beam and spot beam;
Spectrum management; International satellite systems; Transponders;
Multiple access techniques;
Intermodulation distortion and back-off; VSAT; link budget
Text Books
1. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, 1 st Edition, Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
2. T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Digital Communications: Principles and Practice,
2nd Ed., Prentice Hall India, 2007.
3. W. C. Y. Lee, Wireless and cellular telecommunications, 3 rd Ed., MGH,
2006.
Reference Books
1. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Rohit Nabar and Dhananjay Gore, Introduction to
Space-Time Wireless Communications, 1st Edition, Cambridge University
Press, 2003.
2. J. Proakis and M. Salehi, Digital Communications, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill
Higher Education, 2013.
3. Andreas F. Molisch, Wireless Communications, 2 nd Edition, Wiley -IEEE
Press, 2011.
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