Syllabus
Introduction to Wireless Channel and Fading - Rayleigh/Rician Fading, Broadband Wireless Channel Modeling: Introduction to LTV Systems, Channel Delay Spread, Coherence Bandwidth, BER Comparison of Wired and Wireless Communication Systems. Introduction to Diversity, Multi-antenna Maximal Ratio Combiner, BER with Diversity, Spatial Diversity and Diversity Order. ISI and Doppler in Wireless Communications, Doppler Spectrum and Jakes Model. Spread spectrum: PN Sequences, DSSS with BPSK, Signal space dimensionality and processing gain, Frequency-HopSS. CDMA-Introduction to CDMA, Multipath diversity, RAKE Receiver. OFDM: Introduction to OFDM, Multicarrier Modulation and Cyclic Prefix, Channel model and SNR performance, OFDM Issues –PAPR, Frequency and Timing Offset Issues, channel estimation. MIMO: Introduction to MIMO, MIMO Channel Capacity, SVD and Eigenmodes of the MIMO Channel, MIMO Spatial Multiplexing – BLAST, MIMO Diversity–Alamouti, OSTBC, MRT, MIMO‐OFDM. UWB (Ultra wide Band):UWB Definition and Features, UWB Wireless Channels, UWB Data Modulation, Uniform Pulse Train, Bit‐Error Rate Performance of UWB.
Text Books
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References
1. Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Theodore Rappaport, Prentice Hall.
2. Wireless Communications, Andrea Goldsmith, Cambridge University Press.
3. MIMO Wireless Communications, Ezio Biglieri–Cambridge University Press
4. Modern Wireless Communications, Simon Haykin and Michael Moher, Person Education, 2007
5. Wireless Digital Communications: Modulation and Spread Spectrum Techniques, Kamilo Feher, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1995.
6. P-Spread Spectrum and CDMA, Principles and Applications, Ipatov Valery, John Wiley& Sons Ltd.
7. MIMO-OFDM wireless communications with MATLAB, Cho,Y.S., Kim,J., Yang,W.Y., & Kang, C.G., John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
8. Fundamentals of Wireless Communications, David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, Cambridge University Press.