Course Objectives
Distinguish the major cellular communication standards (1G/2G/3G systems)
Characterize the tradeoffs among frequency reuse, signal-to-interference ratio, capacity, and spectral efficiency
Characterize large-scale path loss and shadowing
Characterize small-scale fading in terms of Doppler spectrum, coherence time, power delay profile, and coherence bandwidth
Analyze the error probabilities for common modulation schemes
Analyze the performance of trunked radio systems
Describe different types of diversity and how they improve performance for mobile radio channels
Describe simple equalization schemes
Characterize TDMA, FDMA and CDMA