Subject Code: EC6L020 Subject Name: Wireless and Mobile Communication L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credits: 3
Pre-requisite(s): Communication Engineering
Review of Digital Communication: Block diagram of digital communication, Modulation Schemes ( BPSK, M-PSK, M-QAM, M-FSK),  Pulse Shaping, Bandwidth efficiency, MAP-Receivers, AWGN Channel and Performance analysis; Wireless Channels:   Fading Wireless Channel Modeling , Rayleigh/Ricean Fading Channels ,BER Performance in Fading Channels , Diversity modeling for Wireless Communications, BER Performance Improvement with diversity, RMS Delay Spread , Doppler Fading, Jakes Model, Jakes Spectrum , Impact of Doppler Fading, Types of Diversity – Frequency, Time, Space; Cellular Communications: Introduction to Cellular Communications, Frequency reuse, Multiple Access Technologies, Cellular Processes ‐ Call Setup, Handover, Introduction to CDMA ,Walsh codes,   PN Sequences , Multipath diversity, RAKE Receiver; MIMO/OFDM: Introduction to MIMO, MIMO Channel Capacity, SVD and Eigenmodes of the MIMO Channel, MIMO Spatial Multiplexing – BLAST, MIMO Diversity – Alamouti, OSTBC, Introduction to OFDM , Multicarrier Modulation and Cyclic Prefix, OFDM Issues; Wireless Standards: GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, LTE, WiMAX.
Texts/References Books:
  1. D. Tse and P. Viswanath, “Fundamentals of Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  2. A. Goldsmith, “Wireless Communications,” Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  3. T. S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice,” 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall.