DEC002: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

L 3 Topic Probability, Random variables, Poisson Random Process, Birth-Death Processes, Basic Queueing Systems. MIMO wireless communication, MIMO channel and signal model A fundamental trade-off, MIMO transceiver design Wireless channel, path loss, fading, scattering model in Macrocells, channel as a ST random field Scattering functions, polarization and field diverse channels, antenna array topology, Degenerate channels, reciprocity and its implications Capacity of frequency flat faded deterministic MIMO channels, channel unknown to transmitter, channel known to transmitter Capacity of random MIMO channels, Influence of Ricean fading, fading correlation XPD and degeneration on MIMO capacity Capacity of frequency selective MIMO channels, Capacity limits of MIMO systems: Mutual-2 information and Shannon capacity Single-user MIMO, Multi-user MIMO, Multi-cell MIMO, MIMO for ad hoc networks, MIMO in wireless networks, MIMO in wireless standards Introduction to Multihop Wireless Broadband Networks: Mesh Networks, Importance of Routing Protocols Routing Metrics, Classification of Routing Protocols, MANET Routing Protocols Radio Resource Management for Wireless Broadband Networks: Packet Scheduling, Admission Control. Traffic Models Quality of Service in Wireless Systems, Outage Probability for Video Services in a Multirate DS-CDMA System Systems for Wireless Broadband Networks: Long-Term-Evolution Cellular Networks Network Architecture, Physical Layer, Avoidance MAC, Polling MAC, Reservation MAC, Energy-Efficient MAC, Multi-Channel MAC, DirectionalAntenna MAC, MultiHop Saturated Throughput of IEEE 802.11 MAC Mobility Resource Management: Types of Handoffs, Handoff Strategies,

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Channel Assignment Schemes, Location Management, Mobile IP, Cellular IP, HAWAII. Radio Resource Management, Security, Quality of Service, Applications Wireless Personal Area Networks, Network Architecture, Physical Layer, Medium Access Control Wireless Broadband Networking with WiMAX, WiMAX Overview Competing Technologies, Overview of the Physical Layer, PMP Mode, Mesh Mode, Multihop Relay Mode. Wireless Sensor Architecture, Sensor network scenarios, Optimization goals & figures of merit Design principles for WSNs., Service interfaces of WSNs, Gateway concepts, Conclusion Text Books: 1. 2. 3. Paulraj, Arogyaswami, Gore, Dhananjay and Nabar, Rohit, Introduction to SpaceTime Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press (2008). Chen, Hsiao-Hwa and Guizani, Mohsen, Next Generation Wireless Systems and Networks, John Wiley and Sons (2006). Goldsmith, Andrea, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press (2005). 2 2 2 2 2 2

Reference Books: 1. Biglieri, Ezio, Calderbank, Robert, Constantinides, Anthony, Goldsmith, Andrea, Arogyaswami, Paulraj, and Poor, H. Vincent, MIMO Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press (2007) Zheng, Jun and Jamalipour, Abbas, Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking Perspective, Wiley-IEEE Press (2009).

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