Wireless Communications

Course content

Review of statistical channel models, fading multipath channels frequency/time selectivity. Classification of diversity in time/frequency/space domains. Review of diversity techniques, spread spectrum, RAKE receiver. Capacity of wireless channels. Adaptive modulation and coding. Multiple antenna systems. Multicarrier modulation, OFDM. Iterative methods in coding for wireless channels. Multiuser systems. Iterative and adaptive structures in receiver design. Application on physical layers of 802.11 and DVB-T standards.