Course Contents
Fundamental principles underlying wireless data communications. Wireless transmission basics. Radio propagation issues, antennas, digital modulation. Spread spectrum techniques, and their applications, and popular standards. Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and Bluetooth. Practical knowledge in the design, testing, deployment, debugging, and commissioning of Wi-Fi, WiMAX networks, and point-to-point microwave systems. Cellular Concept and Spatial Reuse (Interference‐Limited and Coverage‐Limited Systems). Frequency Reuse (Cellular vs. WIFI - GSM: Architecture). Voice Support, UMTS: Basics of CDMA, Architecture and Key Channels. Introduction to LTE: History, Architecture. Uplink and Downlink Communication in LTE. Mobility in Cellular Systems: The Gateway Concept. Measurement Reports. Mobility Procedures. Mobile IP: Basic Components, Tunnelling, Enhancements for Mobile Ipv6 - Wireless Personal Area Networks (PANS). Discussions on emerging cellular network technologies.
Lab Work: Basics on wireless transmission. Design of simple Wi-Fi and Wi-Max networks. Demonstration of GSM networks. Deployment and testing of wireless networks. Working with LTE. Demonstration of IPv6. Illustration of Wireless Personal Area Networks (PANS).
- Teacher: Abubakar Idrissa