EC-802 (B) · Wireless Communication/Official Syllabus
Wireless Communication (EC-802 (B)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Introduction
- Applications and requirements of wireless services: history, types of services, requirements for the services, economic and social aspects
- Technical challenges in wireless communications: multipath propagation, spectrum limitations, limited energy, user mobility, noise and interference-limited systems
- Propagation mechanism: free space loss, reflection and transmission, diffraction, scattering by rough surfaces, wave guiding
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Unit 2
Wireless Propagation channels
- Statistical description of the wireless channel: time invariant and variant two path models, small-scale fading with and without a dominant component, Doppler spectra, temporal dependence of fading, large scale fading
- Wideband and directional channel characteristics: causes of delay dispersion, system theoretic description of wireless channels, WSSUS model, condensed parameters, ultra wideband channels, directional description
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Unit 3
Channel models
- Channel models: Narrowband, wideband and directional models, deterministic channel-modeling methods
- Channel sounding: Introduction, time domain measurements, frequency domain analysis, modified measurement methods, directionally resolved measurements
- Antennas: Introduction, antennas for mobile stations, antennas for base stations
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Unit 4
Transceivers and signal processing
- Structure of a wireless communication link: transceiver block structure, simplified models
- Modulation formats, demodulator structure, error probability in AWGN channels
- error probability in flat-fading channels
- error probability in delay and frequency-dispersive fading channels
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Unit 5
Diversity
- Diversity: Introduction, microdiversity, macrodiversity and simulcast, combination of signals, error probability in fading channels with diversity reception, transmit diversity
- Equalizers: Introduction, linear equalizers, decision feedback equalizers, maximum likelihood sequence estimation (Viterbi detector), comparison of equalizer structures, fractional spaced equalizers, blind equalizers
Reference Books
- Wireless Communications
- Principles of Communication Systems
- Modern Wireless Communication
- Wireless Communication
- Wireless Communication and Networks
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