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ELEC 464 Wireless Communications Units: 3.00
Fundamental principles and practice of current wireless communications systems and technologies. Historical context, the wireless channel including path loss, shadowing, fading, and system modes in use. Capacity limitations on transmission rate, transmission of data by signaling over wireless channels via digital modulation, optimum receivers, countermeasures to fading and interference via diversity and equalization, multiple user systems including multiple access FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, FDMA/TDMA, uplink and downlink; capacity and power control, design of cellular networks. Selected standards and emerging trends are also surveyed.
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 0)
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 0)
Offering Term: W
CEAB Units:
Mathematics 0
Natural Sciences 0
Complementary Studies 0
Engineering Science 18
Engineering Design 18
Offering Faculty: Smith Engineering
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding of the physical principles of wireless signal propagation link budget analysis.
- Understanding of wireless channel modelling, including multi path propagation, wideband and narrowband fading channel models, channel sounding principles.
- Modulation techniques for signal transmission and their tradeoffs and performance analysis in wireless channels.
- Diversity and equalization in wireless channels.
- Random traffic modelling (queuing) with application to cellular networks and network planning.
- Multiple access principles and applicationsWireless standards involving CDMA/TDMA/SDMA/OFDMA.