Course Syllabus

• Introduction to the Course (YouTube) (pdf)

• Course syllabus (pdf)

Class Notes:

1. Introduction to Wireless Communications (Ch 1) (pdf)

• 1. Introduction to Wireless Communications (YouTube)

  2. Current Systems (YouTube)

  3. Emerging Systems (YouTube)

2. Link Budget Analysis (pdf)

1. Antennas for Wireless Engineers (YouTube)

2. Link Budget Analysis (YouTube)

3. System Noise Power and Temperature (YouTube)

4. Numerical Examples (YouTube)

3. Radio Wave Propagation: Pathloss, Shadowing and Multipath (pdf)

1. Pathloss, Shadowing, and Multipath (YouTube)

2. Doppler Effects (YouTube)

3. Pathloss Propagation Models (YouTube)

4. Shadowing Models (YouTube)

5. Outage and Coverage (YouTube)

6. Ray Tracing , Empirical Models and Concluding Remarks (YouTube)

4. Statistical Channel Models (pdf)

• Transmit and Receive Lowpass Equivalent Signal Models (YouTube)

1. Introduction to Statistical Multipath Fading Models (YouTube)

2. Narrowband Channel: Rayleigh, Rician and Nakagami Multipath Channel Models (YouTube)

3. Autocorrelation and Power Spectral Density for Time-varying Wireless Channels (Jakes Model) (YouTube)

4. Level Crossing Rates and Average Fading Duration (YouTube)

5. Wideband Channel Models (YouTube)

5. Cellular Design (pdf)

1. Introduction to Cellular Concepts (YouTube)

2. The Hexagonal Shape and System Capacity (YouTube)

3. Handoff (YouTube)

4. Interference (YouTube)

5. Trunking (YouTube)

6. Turnking Examples (YouTube)

7. Improving Coverage and Capacity (YouTube)

   • Cell Splitting

   • Sectoring

   • Microcell Zone

6. Performance of Digital Modulation (pdf)

1. Signal-Space Analysis and Geometric Representation of Signals (YouTube)

2. Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization Procedure (YouTube)

3. Correlator and Matched Filter Receivers (YouTube)

4. Probability of Error and Union Bound (YouTube)

5. FSK, MSK, Non-coherent Orthogonal Modulation, and DPSK (YouTube)

6. Comparison between Digital Modulation Techniques over AWGN (YouTube)

   • Practice Problem (pdf)

7. Digital Modulation Performance over Fading Channels (pdf)

1. Introduction and Performance Metrics (YouTube)

2. Outage and Average Error Probabilities (YouTube)

3. Doppler Effect on Coherent vs Non-coherent PSK Communication (YouTube)

8. Diversity and Combining Techniques (pdf)

1. Introduction to Diversity Types (YouTube)

2. Maximum Ratio Combining with Analysis (YouTube)

3. Additional Combining Techniques and Types (YouTube)

9. Multiple Access Techniques (pdf)

1. Introduction to Multiple Access Techniques (YouTube)

2. Analysis of downlink and uplink multiplexing and Random Access Techniques (YouTube)

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