Introduction to wireless technology
Course overview
The course addresses the fundamentals of wireless communications and provides an overview of existing and emerging wireless communications networks. It covers radio propagation and fading models, fundamentals of cellular communications, multiple access technologies, and various wireless networks, including past and future generation networks. Simulation of wireless systems under different channel environments will be integral part of this course.
Course Duration
3 Days
Cost
Course Content
- Overview of wireless communications and systems
- Review of digital communications
- Cellular systems from 1G to 3G
- Wireless 4G systems
- Radio propagation and propagation path-loss model
- Free-space attenuation
- Multipath channel characteristics
- Signal fading statistics
- Path-loss mode
- Fundamentals of cellular communications
- Hexagonal cell geometry
- Co-channel interference
- Cellular system design
- Sectoring using directional antennas
- Multiple access techniques
- Frequency division multiple access (FDMA)
- Time division multiple access (TDMA)
- Code division multiple access (CDMA)
- Space division multiple access (SDMA)
- Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
- Multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA)
- Random access methods
- Wide-area wireless networks (WANs)
- GSM – IS-136
- IS-95
- UMTS
- Cdma2000
- Long Term Evolution Technologies (LTE)
- OFDM
- MIMO channels
- Space Time Codes
- LTE Advanced
- Other Wireless systems
- IEEE 802.11 WLAN (WiFi)
- WiMAX