Introduction to Cellular and Wireless Communications: What is Cellular and/or Wireless Communications, FDD, TDD, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM; The Mobile Channel: Rayleigh, Ricean and Frequency-Selective Fading; Antenna Diversity: Classic Results; Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Antenna Arrays-MIMO; BLAST: Multiuser Detection; Information Theory Bounds for WGN Channels: Capacity of the Perfectly Bandlimited Channel, Why code? Why Trellis Code? Capacity of the General Channel, Multitone Concept, Discrete Multitone (DMT) Implementation; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing and Multiple Access; OFDM and OFDMA Concepts, UWB-OFDM; Broadband Wireless Access-OFDM-Based Systems: IEEE 802.11a-Radio Interface, IEEE 802.16-Radio Interface; Information Theory Bounds for Fading Channels: Why MIMO? Why MISO? Coding Diversity, Time-Space Coding, Alamouti Coding; Introduction the Multiple Access Techniques: TDMA, FDMA, DS-CDMA; First Generation Analog Systems-Radio Interface: AMPS; Second Generation TDMA Radio Interfaces: GSM, IS-136-TDMA; Code Division Multiple Access-CDMA: CDMA Concepts: Pseudo-Random Sequences, Walsh Functions, RAKE Receiver, Intra and Inter-cell Interference, VAF-Voice Activity Factor, Capacity; CDMA-Radio Interface-Second and 2.5 Generation: IS-95, IS-856-1xEV or HDR-Packet Data; Third Generation Systems-IMT2000 Third Generation Standards: UMTS-WCDMA, CDMA2000-WCDMA, EDGE-TDMA Based; Future Trends-Fourth Generation.
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