ADVANCED

COMMUNICATION

SYSTEMS

By

Prof. Dr. Said E. El-Khamy, Life Fellow IEEE

COURSE OUTLINE 1. Evolution of Wireless Communications

2. Digital Transmission Fundamentals, Channel Capacity and Dig Modulation Comparisons

3. Wireless Channel Problems A- Path loss - Free space model- 2-ray multipath model- Scattering and knife edge diffraction.

B Small scale fading- Rayliegh and Rice distributions- Large scale fading- Log-normal distributions.

4. Diversity and Equalizers.

5. Spread Spectrum Techniques:

- General, DS-FH-H, properties of SS, advantages of SS, - CDMA Codes: Barker codes, M-sequences codes, Gold codes, Orthogonal

codes (Walsh, OVSF);

- Performance of CDMA: MAI, Jamming- Performance of FH-MASS.

6. Cellular systems, FDMA, TDMA & CDMA performance.

7. OFDM and OFDMA techniques.

8. Modern Radar Systems: i- Radar types and signals, Doppler and short pulse radar, coherent

and Non-coherent detection, Radar Equation, False Alarm and Detection Probabilities,

ii- Radar Resolution, Ambiguity Function, Linear FM (chirp) radar, Phase coded radar. [may be Omitted]

9. Advanced Techniques: channel estimation, adaptive modulation & coding, MIMO and Smart antennas, advanced Error Correcting Codes.

10. 2G Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems: GSM, IS-95, GPS, WiLan.

11. 3G Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems: UMTS, CDMA2000.

12. 4G Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems: WiMax, LTE, LTEA.

[NOTE: The Systems and techniques ([9]-[12]) will be delivered partially by the students through their presentations.