TM 615 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
A broad overview of cellular wireless and personal communication networks is provided. This course examines the fundamentals of mobile wireless networking, including the tradeoff between capacity and coverage in a cellular system and the role of frequency reuse, cell sectorization, and cell splitting. It explores radio architecture and the multiple access techniques of TDMA, CDMA, and OFDMA together with 3G standards (UMTS and cdma2000), the major 4G standard (LTE), and emerging 5G networks.