Principles of Modern CDMA- MIMO- OFDM Wireless Communications

INTENDED AUDIENCE: The intended audience is students, practicing engineers, technical and non-technical managers of telecom companies, students preparing for competitive exams with communication engineering subjects.

PRE-REQUISITES: Basic knowledge of - Probability, random variables, Digital modulation, BPSK, QPSK, etc.

INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO: Most companies in the wireless communications area should find this useful. Examples are Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel etc.

COURSE OUTLINE: The field of wireless communications has witnessed revolutionary technology developments in the last decade. While previously there existed only 2G GSM based communication systems that supported a data rate of around 10 Kbps, several radical wireless technologies have been developed in the last 10 years to enable broadband wireless access with rates in excess of 100 Mbps. These have subsequently led to the development of 3G and 4G wireless technologies such as HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access), LTE (Long Term Evolution) and WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access). This has been made possible through breakthrough wireless technologies such as Code Division for Multiple Access (CDMA), Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO). These techniques form the basis of understanding the world of 3G/4G wireless communication systems. This course will present an elaborate introduction to the principles and performance of these fundamental 3G/ 4G wireless technologies.

Principles of Modern CDMA/MIMO/OFDM Wireless Communications by Prof. Aditya K Jagannatham.
Lecture 01: Evolution of Wireless Communication Technologies.
Lecture 02: Modeling Wireless Channel.
Lecture 03: Wireless Fading Channel Model.
Lecture 04: Fading Channel Distribution.
Lecture 05: Rayleigh Fading Channel.
Lecture 06: Bit Error Rate (BER) Performance.
Lecture 07: Bit Error Rate (BER) of AWGN Channels.
Lecture 08: Bit Error Rate of Rayleigh Fading Wireless Channel.
Lecture 09: Exact BER Expression for Rayleigh Fading Wireless Channel.
Lecture 10: Deep Fade Analysis of Wireless Communication.
Lecture 11: Principle of Diversity.
Lecture 12: Multiple Antenna Diversity.
Lecture 13: Maximal-Ratio Combining.
Lecture 14: BER of Multiple Antenna Wireless Systems.
Lecture 15: Approximate BER for Multiple Antenna Wireless System.
Lecture 16: Examples for BER of Wireless Communication.
Lecture 17: Deep Fade in Multi Antenna Systems.
Lecture 18: Intuition for Deep Fade in Multi-Antenna System.
Lecture 19: Definition of Diversity Order.
Lecture 20: Max Delay Spread.
Lecture 21: RMS Delay Spread.
Lecture 22: Delay Spread and Inter Symbol Interference.
Lecture 23: Coherence Bandwidth of Wireless Channel.
Lecture 24: Mobility and Doppler Effect in Wireless Channels.
Lecture 25: Impact of Doppler Effect on Wireless Channel.
Lecture 26: Introduction to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).
Lecture 27: Chip Time and Bandwidth Expansion in CDMA.
Lecture 28: Code Generation for CDMA.
Lecture 29: CDMA Codes: Properties of PN Sequences.
Lecture 30: BER of CDMA Systems.
Lecture 31: Analysis of Multi-user CDMA.
Lecture 32: Multipath Diversity in CDMA Systems.
Lecture 33: Near-Far Problem in CDMA.
Lecture 34: Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Systems.
Lecture 35: Examples of MIMO Systems.
Lecture 36: MIMO Receivers.
Lecture 37: BER Performance of ZF Receiver.
Lecture 38: Transmit Beamforming in MISO Systems.
Lecture 39: Alamouti Code and Space-Time Block Codes.
Lecture 40: BER of Alamouti Coded System.
Lecture 41: Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).
Lecture 42: SVD in MIMO.
Lecture 43: Capacity of MIMO Wireless Systems.
Lecture 44: SVD based MIMO Transmission.
Lecture 45: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
Lecture 46: Transmission in Multicarrier Systems.
Lecture 47: FFT/IFFT Processing in OFDM.
Lecture 48: Cyclic Prefix in OFDM Systems.
Lecture 49: Schematic Represntation of OFDM Transmitter and Receiver.
Lecture 50: BER Performance of OFDM Systems.