Syllabus (Core): M.Tech

Wireless Communication

Code: EE 533 | L-T-P-C : 3-0-0

Course Contents:

Overview of current wireless systems and standards; wireless channel models- path loss and shadowing models; statistical fading models; narrowband and wideband fading models; MIMO channels. Diversity in wireless communications - Non-coherent and coherent reception; error probability for uncoded transmission; realization of diversity: time diversity; frequency diversity: DSSS and OFDM; receiver diversity: SC, EGC and MRC; transmit diversity: space-time codes; Information theory for wireless communications- Capacity of fading channels: ergodic capacity and outage capacity; high versus low SNR regime; waterfilling algorithm; capacity of MIMO channels; Multiuser wireless communications: multiple access: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and SDMA schemes; interference management: power control; multiuser diversity, multiuser MIMO systems.

Texts / References:

1. A. J. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
2. D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
3. A. Molisch, Wireless Communications, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
4. S. Haykin and M. Moher, Modern Wireless Communications, Pearson Education, 2005.
5. T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall, 1996.
6. G. L. Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, Kluwer, 1996.
7. T. Cover and J. Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.