This course presents fundamentals of Cellular and Wireless Communications. We will study current wireless industry interests, available spectrum, and the details of wireless propagation; we will investigate their use in recent radio technologies such as CDMA and OFDMA and their applications to high-speed radio communications. We will review high levels of radio standards including cdma2000, WCDMA, LTE, WiMAX, and Wi-Fi; we will study their improvements over their previous generations and their network architecture evolutions.

• Brief History
• Today's facts
• Wireless systems: cellular, satellite, higher frequency
• Spectrum: properties, regulations, licensed and unlicensed bands

• Coverage and Capacity for FDMA, TDMA, CDMA
• Speech coding
• Handoff
• Interference mitigation
• Diversity
• 2G-3G-4G evolution

• Wireless propagation basics
• Path loss, shadowing, and fading
• Propagation models
• Outdoor, indoor, and outdoor-to-indoor modeling
• Link budgets

• Digital Modulation
• BER vs. spectral efficiency
• Equalization
• Diversity
• Channel coding

• Overview and explanation of concepts
• IS-95
• IS-2000
• WCDMA
• High-speed data standards

• Overview and explanation of concepts
• Wi-Fi
• WiMAX
• LTE
• Case studies and comparison

• 2G-3G-4G networks
• Mobility
• Evolution to IP
• Further integration

• Understand the wireless communication environment and its strategic importance.
• Learn techniques for communicating in the wireless environment.
• Explore choices and decisions in the design process of a wireless communication system.
• Analyze existing and new wireless standards, including cellular CDMA and OFDM.
• Analyze, quantify and compare details of modern digital communications.

Required