In this course, students examine fundamental concepts of mobile cellular communications and specifics of current and proposed US 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; GSM, cdmaOne, GPRS, EDGE, cdma2000, W-CDMA, LTE and candidate 5G waveforms.
Course Prerequisite(s)
EN.525.614 Probability and Stochastic Processes for Engineers or equivalent and EN.525.616 Communication Systems Engineering.;***Computer Science students only: Must complete core courses first (EN.605.601 AND EN.605.611 AND EN.605.621).;***Cybersecurity students only: Must complete core courses first (EN.605.621 AND EN.695.601 AND EN.695.641).
Course Offerings
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Open
Wireless and Mobile Cellular Communications
08/31/2026 - 12/11/2026
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