Wireless Communications

Cellular systems: frequency reuse, co-channel and adjacent channel interference, capacity improvement. Wireless channel characteristics: long term fading, short term fading. Diversity techniques: space, fre-quency, time, polarization. Combining techniques. Digital modulation techniques: DPSK, QPSK, p/4QPSK, QAM, MSK, GMSK. Multiple Ac-cess Techniques for wireless communications: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA. Personal Communication Services. Current standards of PCS and cel-lular systems. Other topics may be added as appropriate.