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525.722 - Wireless and Mobile Cellular Communications Course Homepage

Instructor Information

Gerald Zuelsdorf

Email: gzuelsd1@jhu.edu
Work Phone: (301) 688-0271
Home Phone: (410) 730-4502

Course Information

Course Description

In this course, students examine fundamental concepts of mobile cellular communications and specifics of current and proposed U.S. cellular systems. Topics include frequency reuse; call processing; propagation loss; multipath fading and methods of reducing fades; error correction requirements and techniques; modulation methods; FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA techniques; microcell issues; mobile satellite systems; and IMT-2000.

Prerequisites

525.414 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers or equivalent and 525.416 Communication Systems Engineering.

Course Goal

The objectives of the course Wireless and Mobile Cellular Communications are 

  • To enable the student to synthesis and analyze wireless and mobile cellular communication systems over a stochastic fading channel
  • To provide the student with an understanding of advanced multiple access techniques
  • To provide the student with an understanding of diversity reception techniques
  • To give the student an understanding digital cellular systems (GSM, cdmaOne, GPRS, EDGE, cdma2000, and W-CDMA)

Course Objectives

  • By the end of the course, the student will be able to analyze and design wireless and mobile cellular systems.

  • By the end of the course, the student will have the ability to work in advanced research wireless and mobile cellular programs. 

When This Course is Typically Offered

This course is typically offered in the spring and fall terms at Applied Physics Laboratory.

 This course is typically offered in the spring term at the Montgomery County Campus.

Syllabus

Topics Covered

  • Introduction
  • Cellular Concepts
  • Mobile Propagation: Large-Scale Path Loss
  • Mobile Propagation: Small-Scale Path Loss
  • Spread Spectrum Techniques
  • Equalization, Diversity and Channel Coding
  • Multiple Access Techniques
  • Global System for Mobile Communications
  • cdmaOne
  • GPRS, EDGE
  • cdma2000
  • W-CDMA

Student Assessment Criteria

Midterm Exam 50%
Final Exam 50%

One midterm exam will be given at approximately the 7th class. It will be 50% of the course grade. The final exam will be given the last day of class. It is 50% of the course grade. Your Performance on special homework problems will be used in borderline cases.

You are strongly encouraged to fully understand the regular assigned homework. Regular homework will be assigned but not graded. Written solution will be available.

Computer and Technical Requirements

No specific progamming language is required.

Participation Expectations

Midterm and final exam are in class exams.

Textbooks

Textbook information for this course is available online through the MBS Direct Virtual Bookstore.

Course Notes

There are notes for this course.

Final Words from the Instructor

Sakai is used for course notes distribution and questions outside of the class meeting times.

(Last Modified: 09-08-2009 at 2:47:47 PM)