Downloaded from www.jayaram.com.np WIRELESS AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION (Elective) BEG432EC Year: IV Semester: I 4.

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Examination Scheme Practical 3 Internal Assessment Theory Practical 20 25 Final Theory 80 Practical Total 125

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Course Objective: To provide Students with good understanding of modern wireless and mobile communication system. 1. Introduction to Wireless Communication Systems. (2 hours) 1.1 History. 1.2 Spectrum allocation 1.3 Examples of wireless communication systems: paging systems, cordless systems, cellular systems. 2. Modern wireless Communication Systems, Generation of Wireless System . (3 horus) nd 2.1 2 Generation (2G) wireless Networks. 2.2 Evolution of 2.5G: HSCSD, EDGE and GPRS. 2.3 3rd generation (3G) wireless Networks: CDMA , wireless local loop (WLL), wireless local area network (WLANS), Bluetooth and personal area networks (PANS) 3. The Cellular concept-System Design Fundamentals. (7 hours) 3.1 Frequency reused concept 3.2 Clustering and System capacity. 3.3 Co-channel interference. 3.4 Adjacent channel interference. 3.5 System components-mobile switching centers, base station , mobile station, PSTN. 3.6 Handoff strategies: Prioritizing handoffs, Umbrella cell concept.

Mobile Radio Propagation (7 hours) 4.1 Free space path loss. 4.2 Reflection , diffraction and scattering. 4.3 Longnormal shadowing. 4.4 Outdoor propagation models: Hata model, PCS extension to Hata model. 4.5 Indoor Propagation models: patition losses. 4.6 Small scale fading: Doppler shift and Doppler spread, time dispersion and delay spread. 4.7 Parameters of Mobile multipath channels: coherence time, coherence bandwidth. 4.8 Types of small scale fading. 4.9 Fading distributions. Modulation Techniques for Mobile Radio. (6 hours) 5.1 Analog amplitude and frequency modulation. 5.2 Digital modulation. 5.3 Geometric representation of modulation signals. 5.4 Linear modulation techniques. 5.5 Constant envelope modulation techniques. 5.6 Combined linear and constant envelope modulation techniques. 5.7 Spread spectrum modulation. Equalization, Diversity and Coding. (4 hours) 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Diversity techniques: Time diversity, space diversity, frequency diversity, polarization diversity. 6.3 Combining techniques: selective, maximal ration , scanning, equal gain combining.

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Downloaded from www.jayaram.com.np 2. T.D Gibson The Mobile Communication Handbook CRC pres 1996. 3. W.C.Y. Lee: Mobile Cellular Telecommunication: Analog and Digital Systems MC Grow-Hill 1995.

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6.4 Rake receiver 6.5 Fundamentals of channels coding. 6.6 Interleaving. Multiple Access Techniques (2 hours) 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Frequency division multiple access. 7.3 Time division multiple access. 7.4 Spread Spectrum multiple access: CDMA and FHMA. Some Modern Wireless Systems and Standards. (7+6 hours) 8.1 Global System for Mobile (GSM). 8.1.1 Service and Feature. 8.1.2 System Architecture. 8.1.3 GSM radio substation. 8.1.4 Channel types: traffic and control channels. 8.1.5 Frame structure. 8.2 CDMA Systems. 8.2.1 Features of CDMA technology. 8.2.2 Spreading, Scrambling, PN Sequences, Walsh sequences. 8.2.3 Frequency and channel specifications. 8.2.4 Forward and reverse channels. 8.2.5 Near/Far problem. 8.2.6 Capacity of CDMA systems (Single cell case) 8.2.7 CDMA standards for 3G: W-CDMA, cdma2000, TDSCDMA New Trends in Wireless Systems. (1 hours) 9.1 4 G Concept. 9.2 MC-CDMA and OFDM

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References: 1. Theodore S. Rappaport Wireless Communications: Principles and practice. Downloaded from www.jayaram.com.np/2