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.
Course Offerings
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Open
Wireless and Mobile Cellular Communications
08/26/2024 - 12/10/2024
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