ELEC 6649 - Wireless Communications

Prerequisites: ELEC 6646, ELEC 6650. Transmission characteristics of mobile radio channels; large- and small-scale effects; path loss and shadowing; Rayleigh and Rician fading models; the Doppler effect; coherence bandwidth and coherence time, digital communication over fading channels; diversity techniques, interleaving, forward error correction; spread spectrum and OFDM systems, multiple access schemes: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDMA, cellular architecture; capacity calculations, MIMO systems; capacity limits; space-time coding, architecture of modern cellular systems, IEEE 802.11 WLAN technologies. 3 credits.