Advanced Wireless Communication

 

ADVANCED WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

PREREQUISITE: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION 

OBJECTIVES:

• To understand the importance of improving capacity of wireless channel using MIMO
• To enable understanding of channel impairment mitigation using space-time block and Trellis codes
• To teach advanced MIMO system like layered space time codes, MU-MIMO System and MIMO OFDM systems

Unit I: WIRELESS CHANNEL PROPAGATION AND MODEL

1. Propagation of EM signals in wireless channel,
2. Reflection, diffraction and Scattering
3. Free space & two ray
4. Small scale fading
5. Channel classification 
6. Channel models – COST -231 Hata model, Longley-Rice Model, 
7. NLOS Multipath Fading Models: Rayleigh, Rician, Nakagami, 
8. Composite Fading, shadowing Distributions
9. Link power budget Analysis

Unit II: CAPACITY OF WIRELESS CHANNELS

1. Capacity in AWGN
2. Capacity of flat fading channel
3. Capacity of frequency selective fading channels

Unit III: Diversity

1. Realization of independent fading paths
2. Receiver Diversity: Selection combining
3. Threshold Combining
4. Maximum-ratio Combining
5. Equal Gain Combining
6. Transmitter Diversity: Channel known at transmitter
7. Channel unknown at the transmitter.

Unit IV: MIMO COMMUNICATIONS

1. Narrowband MIMO model
2. Parallel decomposition of the MIMO channel
3. MIMO channel capacity
4. MIMO Diversity Gain: Beam forming
5. Diversity-Multiplexing trade-offs
6. Space time Modulation and coding: STBC, STTC
7. Spatial Multiplexing and BLAST Architectures.

Unit V: MULTIUSER SYSTEMS

1. Review of Multiple Access Techniques
2. Scheduling, power control
3. Uplink and Downlink channel capacity
4. Multi user diversity
5. MIMO-MU

REFERENCES:

1. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press,2007. 
2. Harry R. Anderson, “Fixed Broadband Wireless System Design”, John Wiley, India,2003. 
3. Andreas.F.Molisch,“WirelessCommunications”,JohnWiley,India,2006. 
4. Simon Haykin& Michael Moher, “Modern Wireless Communications”, Pearson Education, 2007. 
5. Rappaport.T.S., “Wireless communications”, Pearson Education, 2003. 
6. Gordon L.Stuber, “Principles of Mobile Communication”, Springer International Ltd., 2001. 
7. UpenaDalal, “Wireless Communication”, Oxford Higher Education, 2009.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

1. CO1: Understand the concept of the capacity calculation under different channel conditions and diversity combining methods(Understand).
2. CO2: Apply the knowledge of channel characteristics to compute the different parameters of multipath channels(Apply).
3. CO3: Apply the concept of MIMO Communications and identify the performance of multipath propagation(Apply).
4. CO4:Analyze the wireless channel characteristics and identify appropriate channel models(Analyze).
5. CO5: Analyze multiple access techniques and identify their use in different multi-user scenarios.(Analyze)
6. CO6: Evaluate the impact of multipath fading and interference and mitigate the impairments on wireless communication systems.(Evaluate)

Link to download the books: 

1. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press,2007.  

Follow this link to download the book:  

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee359/doc/WirelessComm_Chp1-16_March32020.pdf

Solution manual;