Introduction to Wireless Communication

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the broad field of Wireless Communications and its applications. The course covers fundamental concepts from a systems perspective and familiarizes students with modern systems, applications and standards enabled by wireless communications. The course starts with an overview of the history of wireless communications and challenges in providing a reliable wireless data link. Afterwards, tools for link budget analysis and design are learned and applied to practical scenarios. Assessment of reliability follows using bit error rate curves and outage analysis. The course then diverges to address location based services (GPS), cellular telephony (CDMA and GSM networks), remote internet access (WiFi, LTE, WiMAX), standards for consumer electronics (Bluetooth, Zigbee), Wireless LAN, and sensor networks and their applications for environmental monitoring and medical services.