Wireless Communication
Introduction to Wireless Communication Systems
Cellular System Design
Introduction of Multiple Access and Wireless Networking
Large and Small Scale Propagation
Spread Spectrum & Rake Recevier,Diversity,Equalization and Speech Coding
- Mobile Radiotelephone in the U.S.
- Mobile Radio Systems Around the World
- Examples of Current wireless System
- Cellular Telephone Call
- Comparison of Common Mobile Radio Systems
- Trends in Cellular Radio and Personal Communications
- Wireless Transmission Protocols
- AMPS and ETACS System
- Call Handling in AMPS and ETACS
- AMPS and ETACS Air Interface
- Narrow Band Advanced Mobile phone service (NAMPS)
- USDC Radio Interface
- Radio Wave Propagation
- Transmit and Receive Signal Models
- Empirical Path Loss mode
- Ten-Ray Model (Dielectric Canyon)
- Simplified Path-Loss Model
- Combined Path Loss and Shadowing
- Cell Coverage Area
- Outage Probability under Path Loss and Shadowing
- Cellular System
- Global System for Mobile (GSM)
- Allocation of Spectrum
- Frequency Reuse Concepts
- Channel Assignment Strategies
- Interference
- Adjacent Channel interference (ACI)
- Handoff Strategies
- Improving coverage and capacity
- Trunking and Grade of service
- Power Control for Reducing Interference
- Channel coding
- Convolutional Codes
- Linear Block codes
- The Viterbi Algorithm
- Concatenated Codes
- Turbo Codes
- Low Density Parity Check Codes(LDPC)
- Parity Check Matrix and Syndrome Testing
- Code Characterization - Trellis Diagrams
- Coded Modulation
- Coding and Interleaving for Fading Channels
- Block Coding with Interleaving
- Convolutional Coding with Interleaving
- Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)
- Code division multiple access (CDMA)
- Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA)
- Pure ALOHA
- Slotted ALOHA
- Packet Radio
- Hybrid Spread Spectrum Techniques
- Capture Effect in Packet Radio
- Capacity of Cellular Systems
- Capacity of Digital Cellular TDMA
- Capacity of Cellular CDMA
- Capacity of CDMA with Multiple Cells
- Capacity of Space Division Multiple Access
- Introduction to Wireless Networks
- Differences between Wireless and Fixed Telephone Networks
- PSTN
- Limitations in Wireless Networking
- Merging Wireless Networks and the PSTN
- Modern Wireless Communication Systems
- Traffic Routing in Wireless Networks
- Wireless Data Services
- Common Channel Signaling (CCS)
- Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
- Broadband ISDN and ATM
- Signaling System No. 7(SS7)
- Network Services Part (NSP) of SS7
- The SS7 User Part
- Signaling Traffic in SS7
- SS7 Services
- Performance of SS7
- Personal Communication Services/Networks (PCS/PCN)
- Packet vs. Circuit switching for PCN
- Cellular Packet-Switched Architecture
- Network Functionality In Cellular Packet-Switched Architecture
- Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA)
- Network Databases
- Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS)
- Intelligent Cell Concept And Application
- Free Space Propagation Model
- Relating Power to Electric Field
- Basic Methods of Propagation
- Reflection
- Scattering
- Practical Link Budget Design Using Path Loss Model
- Outdoor Propagation Models
- Indoor Propagation Models
- Signal Penetration into Buildings
- Ray Tracing and Site Specific Modeling
- Diffraction
- Small-Scale Fading and its effects
- Impulse Response Model of a Multipath Channel
- Relationship between Bandwidth and Received Power
- Small-Scale Multipath Measurements
- Doppler Shift
- Doppler Spread and Coherence Time
- Level Crossing and Fading Statistics
- Types of Small-Scale Fading
- Factors Influencing Small-Scale Fading
- Two-ray Rayleigh Fading Model
- Saleh and Valenzuela Indoor Statistical Model
- Clarke's Model for Flat Fading
- Spectral Shape Due to Doppler Spread in Clarke's Model
- Direct sequence spread spectrum
- Frequency hopping spread spectrum
- Pseudo-Random Sequences
- RAKE Receiver
- Multi-user Detection
- Equalization
- Survey of Equalization Techniques
- Linear Equalizer
- Nonlinear Equalization
- Adaptive Equalization
- Algorithms for Adaptive Equalization
- Diversity
- Speech Coding
- Quantization
- Vocoders
- Types of Vocoders
- Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation
- Frequency Domain Coding of Speech
- Choosing Speech Codecs for Mobile Communications
- The USDC Codec
- Performance Evaluation of Speech Coders
- The GSM Codec
- Linear Predictive Coders (LPC)