Introduction to wireless communications: history and evolution, current wireless communication system s, requirements of wireless services, and technical challenges of wireless communications. Radio wave propagation in the mobile environment: Free-space propagation, propagation mechanisms, large scale and small scale fading, path loss models, statistical channel models: narrowband and wideband models, System Planning: mobile radio link design, and introduction to radio network planning. Overview of wireless access networks: base and subscriber stations, multiple access technologies, noise and interference in wireless communication systems, diversity reception, MIMO communication: MIMO narrowband channel model, transmit diversity and spatial multiplexing Evolution of cellular systems, principles and operation of cellular systems, narrowband systems: FDMA and TDMA systems, frequency planing, and capacity considerations, CDMA wideband systems: resource allocation, soft handover, power control, interference and capacity, OFDMA wideband systems, and Standardized cellular communications systems. Wireless Network Standards: Wireless LANs, wireless MANs, short range wireless networks, standards, capabilities and applications, broadband wireless networks, and integration of different types of wireless networks Wireless Sensor Networks: Introduction to sensor networks and applications, issues in sensor networks in comparison to conventional wireless networks, special design considerations in energy conservation, routing etc.
