EC2401 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

EC2401 WIRELESS COMMUNICATION L T P C

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UNIT I SERVICES AND TECHNICAL CHALLENGES 9

Types of Services, Requirements for the services, Multipath propagation, Spectrum

Limitations, Noise and Interference limited systems, Principles of Cellular networks,

Multiple Access Schemes.

UNIT II WIRELESS PROPAGATION CHANNELS 9

Propagation Mechanisms (Qualitative treatment), Propagation effects with mobile radio,

Channel Classification, Link calculations, Narrowband and Wideband models.

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UNIT III WIRELESS TRANSCEIVERS 9

Structure of a wireless communication link, Modulation and demodulation – Quadrature

Phase Shift Keying,

Phase Shift Keying, Binary Frequency Shift Keying, Minimum Shift Keying, Gaussian

Minimum Shift Keying, Power spectrum and Error performance in fading channels.

/4-Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, Offset-Quadrature

UNIT IV SIGNAL PROCESSING IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS 9

Principle of Diversity, Macrodiversity, Microdiversity, Signal Combining Techniques,

Transmit diversity, Equalisers- Linear and Decision Feedback equalisers, Review of

Channel coding and Speech coding techniques.

UNIT V ADVANCED TRANSCEIVER SCHEMES 9

Spread Spectrum Systems- Cellular Code Division Multiple Access Systems- Principle,

Power control, Effects of multipath propagation on Code Division Multiple Access,

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing – Principle, Cyclic Prefix, Transceiver

implementation, Second Generation(GSM, IS–95) and Third Generation Wireless

Networks and Standards

TOTAL= 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Andreas.F. Molisch, “Wireless Communications”, John Wiley – India, 2006.

2. Simon Haykin & Michael Moher, “Modern Wireless Communications”, Pearson

Education, 2007.

REFERENCES:

1. Rappaport. T.S., “Wireless communications”, Pearson Education, 2003.

2. Gordon L. Stuber, “Principles of Mobile Communication”, Springer International Ltd.,

2001.

3. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2007.