Syllabus

Unit I Introduction To Wireless Communication System

An overview of wireless communication and future vision. Wireless communication system and standards: satellite communication system, GPS, paging system, cordless phone, wireless local loop, RFID.

 

Unit II: The cellular fundamentals: 

cellular communication and frequency reuse, general architecture of a cellular system, channel assignment strategies, hand-off in a cellular system. Interference and cellular system capacity: co-channel interference and adjacent channel interference, power control, evolution of mobile cellular communication: different generations of mobile cellular communication (1G, 2G. 2.5G, 3G and beyond), typical cellular standards (AMPS, GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, LTE, concept of LTE-advanced), 4G features and challenges, 5G vision. 

 

Unit III: Signal propagation in mobile communication : 

mobile cellular environment, multipath propagation and fading, free space propagation model, propagation path loss, outdoor propagation models (Okumura model & Hata model), indoor propagation models, power delay profile, channel parameters (delay spread, doppler spread, coherence bandwidth, coherence time, LCR and ADF). (8) 

 

Unit IV: Wireless Communication Networks : 

Wireless Personal Area Networks (Bluetooth, UWB and ZigBee), Wireless Local Area Networks (IEEE 802.11, network architecture, medium access methods, WLAN standards), Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WiMAX), Ad-hoc Wireless Networks. 

 

Unit V: Multiple access schemes: 

Duplexing schemes, FDMA, TDMA, SDMA, spread spectrum technique and CDMA, OFDMA, ALOHA and CSMA