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IN INTRODUCTION TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION – ECE 2526

Monday, 14 January 2019

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ETI 2526 Mobile Communication (45 Lecture Hours) Prerequisites ECE 2214 Electromagnetic fields Purpose To enable the student understand: (a) radio propagation characteristics, (b) cellular communication system, and (c) digital modulation techniques of a mobile radio. Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the student should be able to:

• 1. Explain the characteristics of radio propagation.
• 2. Describe the cellular communication system
• 3. Explain the digital modulation techniques of a mobile radio as well as mobile access

techniques.

• 4. Simulate a model of cellular communication system.

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Course Description

• Radio propagation characteristics: Models for path loss, shadowing and

multipath fading (delay spread, coherence bandwidth, coherence time, Doppler spread, Jakes' channel model.

• Digital modulation for mobile radio: Analysis under fading channels;

diversity techniques and Rake demodulator.

• Introduction to spread spectrum communication.
• Multiple access techniques used in mobile wireless communications:

FDMA/TDMA, CDMA.

• The cellular concept: Frequency reuse; the basic theory of hexagonal cell

layout; spectrum efficiency.

• FDM/TDM Cellular systems: channel allocation schemes. Handover
• analysis. Cellular CDMA; soft capacity. Erlang capacity comparison of

FDM/TDM systems and cellular CDMA.

• Discussion of GSM standards: signaling and call control; mobility

management; location tracing.

• Wireless data networking: packet error modeling on fading

channels, performance analysis of link and transport layer protocols

• ver wireless channels; mobile data networking (mobile IP);
• Wireless data in GSM, IS-95, and GPRS.

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Course Textbooks

• 1. Dharma P. Agrawal and Qing-An Zeng (2010), Introduction to Wireless and Mobile

Systems , CL-Engineering, 3rd edition. ISBN-13: 978-1439062050.

• 2. Ian Poole (2006), Cellular Communications Explained: From Basics to 3G, Newnes, 1st
• edition. ISBN-13: 978-0750664356.
• 3. Garg V.K. & Wilkes J. E. (2007), Principles and Applications of GSM, Pearson Education.

Reference Textbooks

• 1. G.L.Stuber (2006), Principles of Mobile Communication, Kluwer Schiller J. (2007),

Mobile Communications, 2nd Ed, Pearson Education

• 2. Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner (2009), Mobile Phones and Mobile Communication,

Polity, 1st edition. ISBN-13: 978-0745644141.

• 3. Reza Zekavat and R. Michael Buehrer (2011), Handbook of Position Location: Theory,

Practice and Advances, Wiley-IEEE Press, 1st edition. ISBN-13: 978-0470943427

COURSE WEBSITE

ECE2526.elimu.net