Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

Department of Information Technology

Course Syllabus

  1. Name of the Course: Principles of Wireless Communication
  2. LTP structure of the course: 3-1-0
  3. Objective of the course: To enable the student to synthesis and analyze wireless and mobile cellular communication systems over a stochastic fading channel.
  1. To provide an understanding of advanced multiple access techniques and diversity reception techniques
  2. To give an understanding of future wireless communication systems
  1. Outcome of the course:
  1. By the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze and design wireless and mobile cellular systems.
  2. By the end of the course, the student will have the ability to work in advanced research wireless and mobile cellular programs.
  1. Course Plan:

Unit

Topics for Coverage  

Unit 1

Baseband and Bandpass digital communication systems.

Unit 2

Information theory and error control codes,

Unit 3

Physical modeling for wireless channels: free space fixed transmitting and receive antennas, free space moving antenna, reflecting wall fixed antenna, reflecting wall moving antenna, power decay with distance and shadowing, two-ray model, etc., Link budget design using path-loss model, Outdoor and indoor propagation models, Small scale multipath propagation, Delay spread, Coherence bandwidth, Doppler spread & Coherence time, Flat fading, Frequency selective fading, Fast fading, Slow fading.

Unit 4

Diversity concept, Non-coherent and coherent reception, Time diversity, Repetition coding, Frequency diversity, Receiver diversity (SC, EGC and MRC), Multiple receive antenna system model and its error performance analysis, Transmit diversity, Channel estimation for multi-antenna system, Diversity order analysis.

  1. Text Book
  1. T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications, 2nd ed. Principles and Practice, Pearson Education India, 2009.
  2. D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  1. References Books
  1. A. B. Carlson, P. B. Crilly, and J. C. Rutledge, Communication Systems: An Introduction to
  2. Signals and Noise in Electrical Communication, 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2002.
  3. L. Song and J. Shen, Evolved Cellular Networks planning and optimization for UMTS and LTE, 1st ed. CRC Press, 2010.
  4. Y.-W. P. Hong, W.-J. Huang, C.-C. Jay Kuo, Cooperative Communications and Networking:
  5. Technologies and System Design, 1st ed. Springer, 2010.