- Performance of digitally modulated signals on fading multi-path channels.
- Synchronization in wireless communication.
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). Principle and applications.
- Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM).
- Space-time trellis coded modulation.
- Advanced antenna systems for future wireless communication.
- Error control coding with feedback: ARQ and link adaptation in wireless communication.
- Spread spectrum transmission and wireless access methods (CDMA, FH, OFDMA).
- Interference modeling in wireless communication, joint detection and interference cancellation.
- Ultra-Wide-Band (UWB) impulse radio and its promise.
Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Evaluate wireless link performance (bit error rate) in a structured way and evaluate tradeoffs.
- Perform system simulations (modulation/demodulation, channel coding/decoding, BER, and channel models).
- Explain and evaluate methods for mitigating wireless channel impairments.
- describe different types of equalization methods and how they solve the problem of intersymbol-interference in wireless communication.
- distinguish the difference between forward error control coding and error control coding with feedback, and how they are used in wireless communications of today.
- design trellis coded modulation for additive white Gaussian noise channels and fading channels. Identify the difference in design for the two channels.
- Explain the benefits of advanced antenna systems in wireless communication and how can they be used.
- Describe various advanced techniques (CDMA, multi-user detection, OFDM etc.) and their benefits in wireless communication systems.
- Describe the principle of ultra-wide-band and its difference to regular radio communication.