In less than three decades, the status of cellular telephones has moved from laboratory breadboard via curious luxury item to the world's most pervasive consumer electronics product. Even though wired telephony is 100 years older and the beneficiary of "universal service" policies in developed countries, the number of cellular phones has exceeded wired phones for a few years and the difference keeps growing. For hundreds of millions of people in developing countries, cellular communications is the only form of telephony they have experienced.

Synopsis

This course introduces selected topics in mobile communications to undergraduate students. Topics include wireless channel, principles of cellular communications, multiple access methods, digital mobile communication systems: TDMA, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, multi-carrier and OFDM systems.

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Additional References

  • Theodore S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0130422323. Call No. TK5103.2 R37 2002
    • There are quite a number of typos in this book. Please go to the update page to download the pdf file of the pages that have been fixed.
  • M. R. Karim and Mohsen Sarraf, W-CDMA and cdma2000 for 3G Mobile Networks, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002.
  • J. S. Lee and L. E. Miller, CDMA Systems Engineering Handbook, Boston, MA: Artech House, Oct. 1998.
  • R.E. Ziemer, Fundamentals of Spread Spectrum Modulation, Colorado Springs: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2007
  • A. Bahai, B. R. Saltzberg, and M. Ergen, Multi-Carrier Digital Communications: Theory and Applications of OFDM, 2nd ed., New York: Springer Verlag, 2004.
  • H.G. Myung and D.J. Goodman, Single Carrier FDMA: A New Air Interface for Long Term Evolution, Wiley, 2008.
  • MATLAB Primer, 8th edition T. A. Davis. CRC Press, 2010.
  • MIT RES.6.007 Signals and Systems (1987) on Youtube

Supplementary References

  1. Wireless Channel
    • Ray tracing
      • J. W. McKown and R. L. Hamilton, "Ray tracing as a design tool for radio networks," in IEEE Network, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 27-30, Nov. 1991.
      • See FIg 1 and the "Efficient Algorithms" section.
  2. Cellular communications, Principles of cellular radio
    • Markov Chain
      • The "best" introductory textbook on Markov chain is probably the one written by Norris. The whole textbook is an overkill for this class but it serves as a good reference if you want to dig into this topic further. There are some sample chapters available on the web as well.
      • Whitt wrote an article that provide several remarks on Erlang B formula via a number of HW exercises. Those who want to read more about Erlang B study may find it interesting.
  3. Multiple access schemes
  4. Spread Spectrum Communications
  5. Multi-carrier and OFDM systems

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