This course aims at providing students with an understanding of mobile communications and related areas. It gives an introduction to the basic applications of mobile communications as well as to the technical problems inherent in the communication paradigm. The course covers the introduction to different kind of mobile communications, radio spectrum regulation, analog and digital signal processing, propagation channels, multiple access techniques, frequency management and channel assignment, hand-offs and dropped calls, switching and traffic system evaluations. Special emphasis would be on wireless local area network (WLAN) and wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN).
The potential topics that will be covered in this course include:

1. Introduction to mobile communications
2. Radio spectrum regulation
3. Wireless propagation channels
4. Modulation and demodulation techniques
5. Multiple access techniques; FDMA, TDMA, CDMA
6. Standardized wireless systems; GSM, WCDMA/UMTS
7. IP for 3G and 4G
8. IEEE 802.11 WLAN networks, IEEE 802.16 WMAN