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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION II LESSON I

Monday, 27 March 2017

ETI 2511-CURRICULUM(1)

ETI 2511 Wireless Communications II (45 Lecture Hours) Prerequisites ETI2505 Wireless Communications I ETI 2506 Telecommunication Systems Purpose The aim of this course is to enable the student to:

• 1. understand the differences between cellular telephone generations
• 2. explain the reasons behind the rapid growth in mobile communications
• 3. know the ITU standards relevant to mobile communications
• 4. design cellular mobile telephone systems

Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the student should be able to:

• 1. Describe the characteristics of cellular telephone generations.
• 2. Describe the advantages and limitations of mobile communication systems.
• 3. Describe the channelization methods used in cellular mobile communications.
• 4. Perform traffic and link budget calculations for cellular telephone systems.

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Course Description 1. Overview of wireless technologies and cellular mobile communication systems; 2. Characteristics of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation mobile communication systems. 3. UMTS/3G system, 4. ITU Wireless Standards. 5. Differences between CDMA-type and GSM networks. 6. Spectral efficiency in Wireless Communication Systems 7. Type of channels: traffic, paging, control channels. 8. Channelization methods in CDMA and GSM. 9. Air interface communication protocols.

• 10. Fundamentals of Cellular communications: geometry of a hexagonal cell, co-

channel interference ratio.

• 11. Cellular system design for different sector and antenna patterns;
• 12. Omni-directional, three sector and six sector directional antennas.
• 13. Traffic and signalling planning, modelling, system dimensioning (capacity

determination) and cell splitting.

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• 14. RF propagation considerations in cellular mobile environment. Diversity

reception, LOS, Fresnel zones.

• 15. Link budget calculations using theoretical and empirical formulae: Okumura

and Hata models etc.

• 16. Hand-off methods: hard hand-off, soft hand-off.
• 17. General architecture and interfaces of cellular system and the PSTN and

Internet networks: BTS, MSC, Internetworking, user registers etc.

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• 17. Roaming, performance management, protocols.
• 18. Functional description of subsystems.
• 19. Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology

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RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Course Textbooks

• 1. Vijay Garg, Wireless Communications and Networking, Elsevier, 2007.
• 2. Garg V.K. & Wilkes J. E. (2007), Principles and Applications of GSM, Pearson

Education

• 3. Karim M.R. & Sarraf M. (2002), W-CDMA and cdma 2000, McGraw Hill

Reference Textbooks

• 1. Garg V.K. & Wilkes J.E, (1996), Wireless and Personal Communications

Systems, Prentice Hall PTR

• 2. Schiller J. (2007), Mobile Communications, 2nd Ed, Pearson Education