Course Overview:
An in-depth understanding of the wireless channel and the related impairments (multipath, fading), small-scale and large-scale propagation effects ,Understanding of the design of cellular systems, detailed discussion of Multiple Access (TDMA/CDMA/OFDM), Antenna diversity, MIMO, Wireless Channel Capacity, Computer simulations of wireless systems, Exposure to current and emerging wireless and cellular systems. (LTE, 802.11)
Pre-requisites:
- Basic Knowledge of 4G
Target Audience:
- You don’t need to have any pre-requisite qualifications to take this course, although a basic understanding of wireless and mobile communication system will be beneficial.
Course Duration:
- 21 hours – 3 days
Course Content:
Overview of wireless communications and systems
- Review of digital communications
- Cellular systems from 1G to 3G
- Wireless 4G systems
- Wireless 5G systems
Radio propagation and propagation path-loss model
- Free-space attenuation
- Multipath channel characteristics
- Signal fading statistics
- Path-loss models
Fundamentals of cellular communications
- Hexagonal cell geometry
- Co-channel interference
- Cellular system design
- Sectoring using directional antennas
Multiple access techniques
- Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)
- Time division multiple access (TDMA)
- Code division multiple access (CDMA)
- Space division multiple access (SDMA)
- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
- Multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA)
- Random access methods
Wide-area wireless networks (WANs)
- GSM — IS-136
- IS-95
- UMTS
- Cdma2000
Long Term Evolution Technologies (LTE)
- OFDM
- MIMO channels
- Space Time Codes
- LTE Advanced
Other Wireless systems IEEE 802.11 WLAN(WiFi)
Closing and Remarks
