This course is for those students interested in the design, performance analysis, and fundamental performance limits of wireless communication systems. This course will provide an overview of current and future wireless systems, wireless channel models including path loss, shadowing, and statistical multipath channel models.

This course can be taken for 4 units with an additional project component.

Topics Include

  • Fundamental capacity of wireless channels
  • Digital modulation and its performance in fading and intersymbol interference
  • Techniques to combat fading including adaptive modulation, diversity, multiple antenna systems (MIMO)
  • Techniques to combat intersymbol interference including equalization, multicarrier modulation (OFDM), and spread spectrum
  • Multiuser system design issues such as multiple access, frequency reuse in cellular systems, and ad hoc wireless network design