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EC-503 (B) · MOBILE COMMUNICATION/Official Syllabus

MOBILE COMMUNICATION (EC-503 (B)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction to wireless communication systems

  • Introduction to wireless communication systems
  • different generations of wireless networks
  • Cellular system design fundamentals
  • frequency reuse
  • handoff strategies
  • Interference and system capacity
  • Trunking and grade of service
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Unit 2

Mobile radio propagation

  • Mobile radio propagation: free space propagation model
  • Ground reflection propagation model
  • Long term fading
  • Small scale multipath propagation
  • Time dispersion parameters
  • Coherence bandwidth
  • Doppler spread and coherence time
  • types of small scale fading
  • Clarke’s model for flat fading
  • level crossing and fading statistics
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Unit 3

Capacity in cellular systems

  • Capacity in cellular systems
  • cell splitting and sectoring
  • cell-site antennas and mobile antenna
  • cochannel interference reduction
  • Frequency management and channel assignment
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Unit 4

Frequency division and time division multiple access

  • Frequency division and time division multiple access
  • Global System for Mobile: System Architecture
  • GSM Radio subsystem
  • GSM Traffic Channel and Control Channel
  • Frame Structure
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Unit 5

Spread spectrum multiple access

  • Spread spectrum multiple access (Frequency Hopped Multiple Access and. Code Division Multiple Access)
  • Different spreading codes
  • CDMA Digital Cellular system: different standards with detailed description of forward and reverse channels
  • Capacity of cellular systems

Reference Books

  • Mobile cellular telecommunication — W. C. Lee — McGraw-Hill
  • Wireless communication — T. S. Rappaport — Prentice Hall
  • Wireless communication — Simon Haykins — Pearson
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