Cellular Concepts: Frequency reuse, channel assignment, hand off, interference and system
capacity, improving coverage and capacity in cellular systems – cell splitting, cell sectoring, microcell
zone concept.
• Pedagogy/Course delivery tools: Chalk and talk
Unit II
Mobile Radio Propagation: Relating power to electric field – Reflection.
Large Scale Path Loss: Free space propagation model, Link budget design, log- distance path loss
models, log normal shadowing.
Small Scale Fading and Multipath: Small scale multipath propagation, Parameter of mobile
multipath channels – Types of small scale fading.
• Pedagogy/Course delivery tools: Chalk and talk
Unit III
Diversity Techniques: Polarization diversity, frequency diversity, time diversity and Space
diversity. Diversity combining techniques – Selection diversity, Scanning diversity, Maximal ratio
combining (MRC) and Equal gain combining (EGC)
Multiple Access Techniques: Introduction to multiple access techniques, FDMA, TDMA and
CDMA
• Pedagogy/Course delivery tools: Chalk and talk
Unit IV
Multiple Antenna Systems: Introduction to MIMO Wireless Communications – MIMO System
Model – Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) of the MIMO Channel – SVD MIMO Capacity.
Alamouti Space-Time Codes.
• Pedagogy/Course delivery tools:Chalk and talk