ENPM604

Issues in the design and analysis of wireless communication systems. Aspects of radio propagation, signal strength, multipath propagation, fading, diversity reception, cell shapes. Modulation and coding for the mobile radio channel including FDMA, TDMA, and CDMA. Multiaccess issues including frequency allocation, channel reuse, and power control. System level issues including traffic engineering, blocking, network design and optimization, channel allocation control, handoffs, mobility management, registration and tracking, signaling and user location database management. Examples of existing analog and emerging digital cellular standards.