Wireless Communications

Catalog description

This course covers the fundamentals of wireless communications including statistical descriptions of the wireless channel (path loss models, large-scale and small-scale fading), digital communication over fading channels (channel estimation, receiver design and performance, Shannon theory of time-varying channels, channel coding, diversity and related MAC-layer concepts), introduction to cellular systems and multiple access (frequency reuse, OFDM, CDMA, capacity analysis and basics of multiuser information theory) and MIMO communication. Examples will be provided from state-of-the-art cellular and wireless LAN standards. | Prerequisites: Knowledge of ECE-GY 6013 (Digital Communications).