NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Wireless and Cellular Communications (Computer Science and Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. David Kovil Pillai


Lecture 1 - Overview of Cellular Systems - Part 1

Lecture 2 - Overview of Cellular Systems - Part 2

Lecture 3 - Overview of Cellular Systems - Part 3

Lecture 4 - 5G and other Wireless Technologies

Lecture 5 - Basic Cellular Terminology

Lecture 6 - Introduction to Antennas and Propagation Models

Lecture 7 - Link budget, Fading margin, Outage

Lecture 8 - Cellular Concept

Lecture 9 - Cellular system design and analysis

Lecture 10 - Cellular Geometry and System Design

Lecture 11 - Cellular System Capacity, Trunking

Lecture 12 - Handoff and Mobility

Lecture 13 - Handoff Part 2, Classification of Signal Variation

Lecture 14 - Shadowing, Outage, Multipath

Lecture 15 - Rayleigh Fading and Statistical Characterization

Lecture 16 - Properties of Rayleigh Distribution

Lecture 17 - BER in Fading, Narrowband vs Wideband Channels

Lecture 18 - Characterization of Multipath Fading Channels

Lecture 19 - Choice of Modulation

Lecture 20 - Coherent versus Differential Detection

Lecture 21 - Review of Lecture 1-19

Lecture 22 - Coherent vs Differential Detection - Part II and BER in Fading

Lecture 23 - BER in Fading - Part II, Ricean Fading

Lecture 24 - Ricean and Nakagami Fading, Moment Generating Function (MGF)

Lecture 25 - MGF Part II, WSSUS Model

Lecture 26 - WSSUS Part II, Coherence Time, Doppler Spectrum

Lecture 27 - Doppler, Temporal Characteristics of Fading Channels

Lecture 28 - WSSUS-Characterization of Time Dispersive Fading Channels

Lecture 29 - WSSUS-Classification of Fading Channels

Lecture 30 - Practical Channel Models (ITU, COST), Computer generation of Rayleigh fading

Lecture 31 - Rayleigh Fading simulation - Clark and Gans Method, Jakes’ Method

Lecture 32 - Jakes’ Method properties

Lecture 33 - Introduction to Diversity, Antenna selection diversity

Lecture 34 - Statistical Characterization of Antenna Diversity, Optimal Diversity Combining

Lecture 35 - BER in fading, Equal Gain Combining

Lecture 36 - Array Gain, Diversity Gain, Alamouti Scheme

Lecture 37 - Alamouti Scheme - Part II, Channel Capacity

Lecture 38 - Capacity of fading Channels, Capacity with Outage

Lecture 39 - Channel State Information, Optimum Power Allocation

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Lecture 41

Lecture 42

Lecture 43

Lecture 44

Lecture 45

Lecture 46

Lecture 47

Lecture 48 - Rake Receiver for multipath channels

Lecture 49 - Multiuser environment

Lecture 50 - CDMA system Capacity

Lecture 51 - CDMA Multiuser Detectors - Part 1

Lecture 52 - CDMA Multiuser Detectors - Part 2

Lecture 53

Lecture 54

Lecture 55

Lecture 56