ADVANCED

COMMUNICATION
SYSTEMS
By
Prof. Dr. Said E. El-Khamy, Life Fellow IEEE

COURSE OUTLINE
1. Evolution of Wireless Communications
2. Digital Transmission Fundamentals, Channel Capacity

and Dig Modulation Comparisons

3. Wireless Channel Problems
A- Path loss - Free space model- 2-ray multipath model- Scattering and knife edge
diffraction.
B Small scale fading- Rayliegh and Rice distributions- Large scale fading- Log-normal
distributions.

4. Diversity and Equalizers.

5. Spread Spectrum Techniques:

- General, DS-FH-H, properties of SS, advantages of SS,

- CDMA Codes: Barker codes, M-sequences codes, Gold codes, Orthogonal
codes (Walsh, OVSF);
- Performance of CDMA: MAI, Jamming- Performance of FH-MASS.

6. Cellular systems, FDMA, TDMA & CDMA performance.

7.

OFDM and OFDMA techniques.

8.

Modern Radar Systems:

i- Radar types and signals, Doppler and short pulse radar, coherent
and Non-coherent detection, Radar Equation, False Alarm and
Detection Probabilities,
ii- Radar Resolution, Ambiguity Function, Linear FM (chirp) radar,
Phase coded radar.
[may be Omitted]

9. Advanced Techniques: channel estimation, adaptive modulation

& coding, MIMO and Smart antennas, advanced Error Correcting Codes.
10. 2G Mobile and
IS-95, GPS, WiLan.
11. 3G Mobile
CDMA2000.

Wireless Communication Systems: GSM,

and Wireless Communication Systems: UMTS,

12. 4G Mobile and

WiMax, LTE, LTEA.

Wireless Communication Systems:

[NOTE: The Systems and techniques ([9]-[12]) will be delivered

partially by the students through their presentations.