Wireless and Mobile Communication

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Pre-requisite: Analog and Digital communication, computer networks Aims and objective: 1) The learners will be in a position to appreciate the advantages and limitations of RF wireless as a medium of communication. 2) The learners will be in a position to understand the wireless communication abnormalities in data and voice receptions and will be able to provide possible solutions to overcome such abnormalities. 3) The learners will be able to understand the Circuit switching techniques as applied in cellular communication systems and how mobility is handled in such systems. 4) Based on the advantages and disadvantages understood in theoretical principles imparted the learners will be in a position that is technically acceptable for certain voice and data communication by prospective users.. 5) The learners will be able to apply the mobile and wireless principles for creating solutions for data and voice communication in various Industries like Banking, Marketing and Automobile. Wireless Transmission Systems and Characteristics(4hrs) Functional blocks of wireless Transmission systems, choice of Frequency, TX power, Antenna characteristics and receiver sensitivity effects on radio transmission, Regulations, Commercial Transmission and Reception Systems. Wireless propagation and its effects(10hrs) - Free space propagation model, propagation effects-reflection, diffraction and Multipath propagation, Ground Reflection Model, Diffraction-Scattering, Practical link budget design using path loss model, Small Scale Multipath propagation, impulse response model of a Multipath channel, Statistical model for Multipath channels, Large and small scale fading, Multipath shape factors for small scale fading wireless channels Multiple Access Schemes in Wireless Communication(04hrs) QoS in Wireless Transmission Systems, Motivation for a specialized MAC, SDMA, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, comparison of S/F/T CDMA, introduction to OFDMA,.. Physical layer implementation in wireless communication, Mobile Communication Systems (4hrs) Issues and Challenges in mobile wireless communication, Mobility Doppler, fading, handoff, and frequency re-use.

Cellular concept Systems Design Fundamentals(10hrs) Cell structure, Frequency reuse, Channel Assignment and channel portioning for a cell, Improving Coverage and Capacity in Cellular Systems- cell splitting, sectoring, repeater and zone concept. Handoff strategies, Micro and Femto cell concepts, Hard and soft handoff, Co-channel and adjacent channel Interference, System Capacity, Trunking and Grade of services, Cellular communication Standards 2hrs) 1G - AMPS, 2G-GSM, Services and features, System Architecture, Radio subsystem, channel types, Frame Structure, Signaling system. Other services like SMS etc. GSM system cell phone network operation: (4hrs) Call establishment sequence in a GSM system functional blocks that participate and channels that are used, signals exchanged between various functional blocks, call metering, handoff, SMS transmission; multiple service providers in the same network challenges and Practical solutions. Cellular Technology Evolution(5hrs) Data over mobile cellular networks CDPD, HSCSD,GPRS (SGSN &GGSN), EDGE, 3G, 4G and LTE. Text Books: 1. Theodore S. Rappaport, wireless communications Principles and Practices, PHI, 2005 2. Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Pearson Education, second edition, 2009. References: 1. Lee W.C.Y, Mobile communication Engineering 2. : Theory and Applications, 2/e McGraw-Hill,New York, 2003 3. Andreas F. Molisch, Wideband Wireless Digital Communication, Pearson Education 2001. 4. R. Blake, Wireless Communication Technologies, Thomson Delmer, 2003 Mode of evaluation: CAT-I, CAT-II, Quiz-I, Quiz-II, Quiz-III and Assignment -------------------------------------------------------:----------------------------------------------Course outcome: 1) Learners will be a position to recognize the performance degradation of their communication systems performance while moving away from Wired to RF wireless as a medium of transmission while in transit. 2) Recognize the signal drop phenomenon while moving and suitably organize his work. 3) Will be able to demonstrate the advantage of Wireless mobile communication technologies to a prospective user or buyer in spite of QOS degradation by creating connectivity while in transit.

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Will be able to analyze user requirements and offer a cost effective communication solution by assembling suitable technologies learnt.

Sample question paper:

Typical Statement of work (SoW): An automobile manufacturing company wishes to get an integrated network solution for its employees, vendors and customers to communicate using state of art technology and to reduce cost of travel and communication cost using legacy systems. The outline of the services the company is expecting from the Network service provider is as below: a) Voice communication including conference calls within company premises. b) Voice communication including conference calls between the employees, customers and vendors. No geographical constraints. c) The facility should have provision for prospective purchaser to browse, various automobile models, and the price of the finished automobile models and spare parts & accessories over the net. (Initially no interactive service is expected). d) The company sales department should be able to send the invoice with all details as a proposal which is a confidential document over the same network. e) Flexibility to expand number of communicators and also ability to adopt evolving technologies should be incorporated in the solution. Use the technologies that you are supposed to have studied to engineer a solution meeting the requirements as below. The typical steps could be as below: 1) QOS based on the above SoW. 2) Choose the communication subnet technologies that you will consider and choose the one you think is the closest fit for the above SoW. Technical justification is needed. 3) Identify one or two typical scenario and validate the solution. Extension: Now the company wishes to have its mobile or moving sales person to access the network using cost effective cell phone or iPOD or wireless LAN. 4) Now identify additional challenges that your network solutions will face or what will be the additional inputs in QoS. 5) Recommend additional equipment or fitments that customer has to incorporate in its network to meet the additional requirements. 6) With a typical scenario validate the add-on solution.

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Diagrammatically build architecture of a typical Cellular communication system along with channel multiplexing hierarchy. (Draw such a way to simplify your answer to the second part less cumbersome. The answer should be so good that no English explanation is needed to understand). a) Draw the sequence diagram from source to destination (indicate the various functional blocks including the various channels that are being used) for a voice communication flow between two mobile phones I. serviced by the same service provider

II. serviced by different service provider III. Identify the sequence followed while one mobile user moves from one cell to another. IV. The user prefers to send SMS instead of voice communication due to his preoccupancy. Through a sequence diagram indicate how the SMS moves from the source to destination. Indicate various channels and resources used.

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