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535 Mobile Communications (3) The mobile communication channel; techniques used to combat the channel; cellular communications; multiple-access techniques; example mobile communication systems. Prerequisite: EE 464; co-requisite: EE 562a; recommended preparation: EE 567 and some background in electromagnetics.
Rappaport Theodore S., "Wireless Communications, Principles and Practice," Prentice Hall, Second Edition 2002. (ISBN 0-13-042232-0)
Keith Chugg, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems
1. Cellular System Design : Large-scale channel models (path loss and shadowing); Multiple access techniques; Channel assignment; Reuse and sectoring; System Capacity; Example systems .
2. Physical Layer Mobile Communications : The basics of digital modulation and detection ; Spread spectrum techniques as applied to CDMA; Small-scale channel models (multipath fading); Diversity.
3. Candidate Selected Topics : Overview of existing and developing systems/standards; Resource allocation (channel assignment, call admission, etc.); Protocols for data-oriented networks; Mobility management and hand-off; Wireless LAN, satellite systems, etc.
Course Objectives:
To introduce students to many basic concepts pertaining to Mobile Communications, with particular emphasis on the physical layer.
1. Understand the basic concepts of modern mobile communication systems;
2. Be familiar with the key system parameters in the physical layer of mobile communications systems;
3. Understand the role of probability random processes and fading models in describing channels for mobile communication physical links;
4. Understand the effects of mobile system parameters on channel capacity;
5. Understand the importance and effect that performance of the mobile communication physical link has on a network;
6. Appreciate CDMA and TDMA in Example Systems.
Prepared by Keith Chugg 7/2004
