Topics in this unit include an introduction to varieties of wireless communication systems, concepts of cellular mobile radio systems and system design fundamentals, large-scale path loss, practical link budget design, small-scale fading and shadowing, frequency-selective fading channel, code division multiple access, diversity, multiple-input multiple-output systems, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, equalisation, spatial multiplexing, space-time coding, performance analysis of convolutional codes over fading channels, turbo codes, low density parity check codes and fountain codes. -- Course Website
