KONERU LAKSHMAIAH COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(AUTONOMOUS)
Affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna University
REVISED REGULATIONS FOR FOUR - YEAR B.TECH. DEGREE COURSE
(CREDIT BASED SYSTEM)
Course Code: EC411
Course Title: MOBILE AND CELLULAR COMMUNICATION
Syllabus:
UNIT I:
INTRODUCTION TO MOBILE COMMUNICATION:
Evolution of Mobile Radio Communication, Mobile Radio Telephony in US and around the world, Examples
of Wireless Communication Systems: Paging system, Cordless telephones systems, Cellular telephone
Systems, Trends in Cellular Radio and personal Communications
The Cellular concept: Frequency reuse, Channel Assignment strategies, Hand off
Strategies, Interference and system capacity, Improving coverage and capacity in cellular systems.
UNIT II:
MOBILE RADIO PROPAGATION:
Large Scale Fading: Introduction, Free space propagation model, Relating power to electric field, The
Three basic propagation mechanisms: Reflection, Ground reflection (Two-Ray) model, Diffraction,
scattering, Practical Link budget design using path loss models.
Small Scale Fading: Small-scale Multipath Propagation, Impulse response model of a multipath channel,
Parameters of mobile multipath channels, Types of small scale fading: Fading effects due to multipath
time delay spread and Doppler spread Rayleigh and Ricean distributions.
Equalization: Fundamentals of equalizers, Training a generic adaptive equalizer, Equalizers in a
communication receiver, survey of equalization techniques, Linear equalizers, Nonlinear equalizers:
Decision feedback equalizers, Maximum likelihood sequence Estimation (MLSE) equalizer.
Diversity Techniques: Space diversity: Selection diversity, feedback, MRC, EGC diversity, Polarization
diversity, Frequency diversity, Time diversity, Rake Receiver.
UNIT III:
WIRELESS NETWORKING (2G):
Global system for mobile(GSM):services and features, system architecture, Radio subsystem ,channel
types, Example of a GSM call, Frame structure for GSM, signal processing in system.

CDMA digital cellular standard (IS 95): Frequency and channel specifications, Forward CDMA channel
and Reverse CDMA channel.
UNIT IV:
WIRELESS NETWORKING (3G)
Mobile Services (2.5G):
GPRS: GPRS Functional groups, architecture, network nodes, procedures, billing.
WAP: WAP Model, WAP Gateway, WAP Protocols, WAP UA prof and caching, wireless bearers for WAP,
WAP developer tool kits. Mobile station application execution environment.
Mobile Services (3G):
Paradigm Shifts in 3G Systems, W-CDMA and CDMA 2000,Improvements on core network, Quality of
service in 3G,Wireless OS for 3G handset,3G systems and field trials, Other trail systems, Impact on
manufacture and operator technologies.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Theodore S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, Pearson
Education, 2003 (UNIT I, II, III)
3. Yi-BingLin, Imrich Chlamtac, Wireless and Mobile Network architectures, Wiley, 2001(UNIT IV)
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Kamilo Feher, Wireless Digital Communications, PHI, 2003
2. W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Cellular Communications, 2nd Edition, MC Graw Hill, 1995.
3. P. Nicopolitidis, Wireless Networks, Wiley, 2003