Topic 1. Introduction to wireless communications.
1.1 Kind of services: bearer services, added value services.
1.2 Wireless networks: trunk networks, mobile systems, PAN, LAN, WAN, sensor networks.
1.3 The radio electric spectrum.
Topic 2. The radioelectric channel.
2.1 Elements of a radio link.
2.2 Friis`s formula.
2.3 Diffraction.
2.4 Noise model.
2.5 Mobile propagation
2.6 The Okumura Hata model.
2.7 The Walfish-COST model
2.8 Indoor propagation models
Topic 3. Statistical channel models
3.1 Impulse channel response.
3.2 Slow fading.
3.3 Rayleigh and Rice channels.
3.4 Fading statistics.
3.5 Statistical channel models
3.6 Wide band channel models.
3.7 Delay and Doppler Spreads
3.8 Transverse filter channel model.
3.9 COST 207 channel model.
Topic 4. Capacity of wireless channels.
4.1 Flat fading channels
4.2 Channel state information at the receiver.
4.3 Ergodic and outage capacity.
4.4 Capacity of multiple access and broadcast channels.
Topic 5. Cellular systems.
5.1 Cellular geometry
5.2 Rhombus numbers.
5.3 Cochannel interference
5.4 Cellular sub-division.
5.5 Limits on the cell size.
5.5 Interference and traffic in CDMA systems
Topic 6. 2G Mobile networks planning.
6.1 GSM radio system.
6.2 GSM subsystems.
6.3 Traffic, control and signalling channels.
6.4 Base station and mobile equipment.
6.5 GSM standards and link balance.
Topic 7. 3G Mobile networks planning.
7.1 UMTS services and architecture.
7.2 UMTS channels.
7.3 UMTS codes.
7.4 UMTS equipment
7.5 UMTS specifications.
7.6 UMTS link budget.
Topic 8. 4G Mobile networks planning.
8.1 LTE architecture and services.
8.2 LTE channels.
8.3 LTE modulation and resources.
8.4 MIMO in LTE.
8.5 LTE equipment.
8.6 LTE specifications.
8.7 LTE link balance.