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Rensselaer Catalog 2008-2009 [Archived Catalog]

ECSE 6590 - Principles of Wireless Communications

A comprehensive description of the concepts used in modern wireless and cellular systems. The general topics covered will be wireless channel models, multi-access issues, such as FDMA/TDMA and CDMA with a brief view of GSM, descriptions of digital transmission methods in wireless, receiver diversity, channel estimation and multi-user detection, and wideband communications. We will address the topics of system capacity and the effects of automatic power control, wireless networks, and DSP applications for wireless.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: ECSE 6510 and ECSE 6560.

When Offered: Spring term annually.



Credit Hours: 3