This course is intended to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge of most technical aspects, operations and applications of first/second/third/fourth generation and future cellular mobile and personal communication technology.
The course will introduce technologies and underlying principles of wireless communications; building blocks of wireless networks; elementary examination of the science and technology of wireless communications including radio signal propagation, radio channel modeling, interference-limited communications, coding, modulation, anti-fading techniques like transmit and receive antenna diversity, equalization etc.; essential functions of all cellular telephone systems like frequency re-use, cellular hierarchy, sectorization, handoff and power control etc. are discussed.
- Teacher: Jennifer Batamuliza