A. GENERAL THEORY
I. Introduction to Cellular Mobile Radio Background and History
1. Conventional Mobile Radio Versus Cellular Mobile Radio
2. Features of Cellular Radio
3. Digital Cellular Radio
4. Trends in the Use of Cellular Services
II. The Mobile Radio Environment
1. Lowpass Equivalent Representation: Bandpass Signals and Linear Bandpass Systems
2. Multipath Propagation: Path Loss, Doppler Effect, Rayleigh Fading and Rician Fading
3. Statistics of Slow and Fast Fading
4. Classification of Channels: Time Dispersion and Frequency-Selective
5. Fading, Frequency Dispersion and Time-Selective Fading
6. Mathematical Modeling of Fading Multipath Channels: Bello Functions, Description of Random Time-Variant Channels
7. Discrete-Time Representation of Channels
8. Computational Channel Models: Gaussian, Rayleigh, Rician and Wideband Channels
III. Diversity Schemes and Combining Techniques
1. Diversity Schemes: Space, Frequency, Polarization, Field Component, Angle, Time and Multipath Diversity
2. Combining Techniques: Selective, Switched, Maximal-Ratio, Equal-Gain and Baseband Combining
IV. Cochannel and Adjacent Channel Interference
1. Noise-Limited an Interference-Limited Environments
2. Cochannel Interference
3. Adjacent Channel Interference
4. Near-End-To-Far-End Ratio
V. Cellular Traffic
1. Channel Assignment
2. Capacity of Cellular Systems
3. Trunking Theory
4. Components of Cellular Systems
5. Handover
B. ANALOG FDMA SYSTEMS
I. The Analog Cellular Environment
1. Analog Modulation: Frequency Modulation, Transmission bandwidth, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Deemphasis and Preemphasis, Capture Effect, Effect of Multipath Fading, Modulators and Demodulators for FM
II. Fading Channel Issues in Analog Systems
III. Existing Analog Cellular Radio Systems
1. European, American and Japanese Systems
2. AMPS: Network Aspects, Control Channels, Supervision, Call Origination and Receipt, Handover, Call Termination, Power Control
3. The NMT-900 System: Control Channels, Call Origination and Receipt, Handover and Location Updating, Security, NMT Mobile Station
C. DIGITAL TDMA SYSTEMS
I. The Digital Cellular Environment
1. Intersymbol Interference and Nyquist Filter
2. Nonlinear Distortion: AM/AM and AM/PM conversion
3. Fading Channel Issues in Digital Systems
II. Digital Modulation
1. Linear Modulation
2. Nonlinear Modulation Methods: Continuous Phase Modulation, Digital Phase Modulation and Digital Frequency Modulation
3. Actual Modulations Used in Mobile Communications: Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying and p/4-Shifted Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
4. Receiver Structures: Coherent, Differential, and Noncoherent Detection, Detection in Presence of Frequency-Flat or Frequency-Selective Fading
5. Bit Error Rates: Gaussian Noise and Rayleigh Fading Environment
6. Channel Equalization: Zero-Forcing Equalizer, Discrete-Time Wiener Filter, Adaptive Linear Equalizer, Decision-Feedback Equalizer Carrier, Symbol and Frame Synchronization
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III. Signal Processing and Data Formatting
1. Speech Coding
2. Channel Coding
3. Security: Security Mechanisms, Analog Cryptographic Techniques, Digital Cryptographic Techniques: Secret-Key and Public-Key Cryptography
IV. Existing Digital Cellular Radio Systems
1. European, American and Japanese Systems
2. The GSM System: Overview, Mapping of Logical Channels, Speech Channel, Channel Coding and Interleaving, GSM Transmitter and Receiver, Frequency Hopping, Registration, Call Origination, Paging, Handover, Security, DCS1800, Telecommunications Services
D. DIGITAL CDMA SYSTEMS
I. CDMA Systems
1. Overview of Multiple Access Methods
2. Spread Spectrum Techniques
3. CDMA Transmission and Reception: Spreading Sequences, Rake Receiver
4. Near/far problem
5. Soft Handover
6. Overlays
II. Capacity Analysis of Multiple Access Methods
1. Spectral Efficiency of FDMA,TDMA and CDMA Systems, The Qualcomm CDMA
2. Capacity Equation
3. Bit Rate Capacity of FDMA,TDMA and CDMA Systems in Single-Cell and Multicell Environment
4. Practical Differences between CDMA and FDMA/TDMA
III. IS-95 Standard for CDMA Cellular System
1. Uplink Transmission: Access and Traffic Channels
2. Downlink Transmission: Pilot, Synchronization, Paging and Traffic Channels
3. Variable Rate Speech Coding Algorithm: LPC Analysis, Choice of Data Rate, Pitch Predictor Parameters, Excitation Codeword, 14.4 kbit/s Speech Coder
4. Channel Coding and Interleaving
5. Power Control: Open Loop and Closed Loop Uplink Power Control, Downlink Power Control
6. Handover Issues
7. System Access
8. Call Origination
9. Security: Authentication, Encryption
IV. 3rd Generation CDMA Systems
1. Radio Interface Technologies of Third Generation Systems
2. WCDMA: Logical and Physical Channels, CDMA Spreading, Multirate Operation, Packet Data, Handover, Interoperability between GSM and WCDMA
3. CDMA2000: Logical and Physical Channels, CDMA Spreading, Multirate Operation, Packet Data
4. Time Division CDMA
V. 4th Generation Mobile Systems
1. Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM)
2. OFDM-CDMA
3. Efficient modulation and coding schemes
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