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1 Introduction
- Definition; key features; key design challenges

2 Cellular Concept and Multiple Access Schemes
- Cellular concept
- Multiple Access Schemes
- Handoffs
- Co-channel interference

3 Mobile Radio Channel
- Multipath propagation and fading (Rayleigh/Rice)
- Small scale channel modeling; channel parameters and channel characterization/classification
- large scale propagation mechanisms and channel modeling

4 Narrowband Systems
- Review of linear modulation techniques
- Performance on flat fading channels
- Principle of Diversity and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
- Diversity gain (performance of receiver diversity schemes)
- Alamouti scheme (transmit diversity)
- GSM

5 Wideband and Spread-Spectrum Systems
- ISI and equalization (problem statement and approaches)
- Principle of Multicarrier Modulation
- CDMA and Rake receiver
- Basics of MU-Detection for CDMA Systems
- Modeling of a (linear) multiple access CDMA system
- Notion of MU-detection and principles
- UMTS

6 Ultra-Wideband Systems
- UWB definition; signals; and features
- Impulse Radio: Time hopping UWB with coherent detection (Rake receiver)
- Impulse Radio: Transmitted reference signaling with autocorrelation detection