Introduction to the basic concepts and design techniques in radio, mobile radio and personal communication systems; frequency allocations: cellular radio; frequency reuse, handoff and interference; mobile radio propagation; reflection, refraction, and diffraction of radio waves; indoor and outdoor propagation models; multipath fading channels; Raleigh and Rican models, coherence bandwidth and doppler fading rate of time varying fading; modulation and multiple access; FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, FDMA/TDMA and multi-carrier access; QPSK and MSK modulation, coded modulation and antenna diversity; selected wireless standards; IS-136, IS-95 and PCS 1800. (0/0/0/18/18)~COURSE NOT OFFERED IN 2010-2011~ PREREQUISITE: ELEC 461
