EC148 Wireless And Mobile Communication

L-T-P: 3-0-0; Total 42

lectures

Prerequisites: i) Probability and Statistics, ii) Linear Algebra, Random

Variable and Random Processes iii) Digital Communication System
Objective: The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the
concepts/techniques/basic principles and the most update knowledge in
wireless communications.
Course Outcome: Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to understand and analyse:
1. Large-scale propagation effects
2. Small-scale propagation effects (Multipath fading)
3. Prediction of the radio cell coverage
4. Basic digital modulation techniques used in wireless communications
5. Performance of basic digital modulation techniques over wireless channels
6. Diversity techniques to mitigate the effect of multipath fading
7. Basic principles of multiple access methods
8. Basic code division multiple access (CDMA) methods
Topics Covered:
Unit 1: Introduction to Wireless Communication Lectures-2
Introduction to Wireless Communication, Types of Wireless Communication,
Frequencies used and Ranges, Basic Challenges and Requirements, Block
Schematic Diagram, Evolution of Wireless Communication-Different
Generations
Unit 2: RF and microwave signal propagation in wireless channel
Lectures-5
Propagation mechanism- Free space propagation and Friis transmission
formula, reflection, refraction, diffraction and scattering; Large scale signal
propagation Path-loss, Introduction to shadowing and log-normal
shadowing; Link-budget calculation.
Unit 3: Wireless fading channel Lectures-10
Multipath and small scale fading, Doppler shift, Statistical multipath channel
models Clerks Model, Rayleigh and Rician fading channel; Narrowband and
wideband fading channel, Power delay profile - average and r.m.s delay
spread, coherence bandwidth and coherence time, Flat and frequency
selective fading, slow and fast fading, average fade duration and level
crossing rate.
Unit 4: Diversity techniques in wireless communication Lectures-8
Different types of diversity techniques Time diversity, Frequency diversity,
Antenna diversity; Antenna diversity Space diversity, polarization diversity
and pattern diversity; Receiver antenna diversity Selection combining,
Maximal-Ratio-Combining (MRC) and Equal gain combining; Outage
probability, average SNR, average BER/SER; Introduction to Rake receiver;
Transmit diversity Alamouti scheme
Unit 5: Basic digital modulation techniques used in wireless
communications Lectures-6
Modulation schemes: BPSK, QPSK and variants, QAM, MSK and GMSK,
multicarrier modulation, OFDM; Performance of basic digital modulation
techniques over wireless channels; Equalization: linear-ZFE and adaptive, DFE
Basic principles of multiple access methods- FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, SDMA,
OFDMA

Unit 6: Cellular Communications Lectures-7

Introduction to Cellular Communications, Cell structure, Frequency reuse, Cell
splitting, Channel assignment, Handoff, interference, capacity, power control
Wireless Standards: Overview of 2G and 3G cellular standards - GSM, EDGE,
GPRS, WCDMA.
Module 7: Brief introduction to Satellite Communication Systems
Lectures-4
Geostationary and non-geostationary orbits; Global beam and spot beam;
Spectrum management; International satellite systems; Transponders;
Multiple access techniques;
Intermodulation distortion and back-off; VSAT; link budget
Text Books
1. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, 1 st Edition, Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
2. T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Digital Communications: Principles and Practice,
2nd Ed., Prentice Hall India, 2007.
3. W. C. Y. Lee, Wireless and cellular telecommunications, 3 rd Ed., MGH,
2006.
Reference Books
1. Arogyaswami Paulraj, Rohit Nabar and Dhananjay Gore, Introduction to
Space-Time Wireless Communications, 1st Edition, Cambridge University
Press, 2003.
2. J. Proakis and M. Salehi, Digital Communications, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill
Higher Education, 2013.
3. Andreas F. Molisch, Wireless Communications, 2 nd Edition, Wiley -IEEE
Press, 2011.
RELATED LINKS
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/stuber/6604/
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee359/
http://wncg.org/ee381v/
http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~rheath/courses/mimo/index.php
http://www.nari.ee.ethz.ch/commth/teaching/mimo/lecture.html
http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?subjectId=117102062