Wireless Communications

Course title: Wireless Communications

Code: 3ФЕИТ10Л006

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Taken course: Wireless Channels, Digital Communications 1

Course Goals (acquired competencies): The student will acquire fundamental knowledge of fading channels, modulation and coding for flat fading, Spread Spectrum signals and OFDM, smart antennas and MIMO systems and will be able to comprehend the principles of functioning of the current and future wireless systems.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Large-scale and small-scale fading classification. Free Space Path Loss. Empirical models. Shadowing. Statistical Characterization of Time Varying Channels. Rayleigh and Ricean Fading. Detection in Slow, Flat Fading. Outage Probability. Diversity Types and Combining Techniques. Error Control Coding for Fading Channels: Interleaving and Error Probability. Adaptive Transmission for Fading Channels: Adaptive Transmit Power, Adaptive Modulation, Adaptive Coding. Cellular Systems. Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum and Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. Multiuser Spread Spectrum Systems. Multicarrier Modulation. OFDM. Bit Allocation and Channel Estimation. OFDMA and SC-FDMA. Antenna Arrays and Smart Antennas. Types of Antenna Arrays. MIMO Systems - Channel Model and Capacity. Space Time Coding and Spatial Multiplexing. Multiuser MIMO and Massive MIMO.

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