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This document summarizes the conclusion of a lecture on wireless communication given by Vinay Joseph from NIT Calicut. The lecture covered 3 modules: 1) a high-level analysis of wireless networks using simplified channel models, 2) point-to-point communication over fading channels, and 3) analysis of wideband wireless systems like DS-SS and OFDM using detailed channel models. Key takeaways include the importance of accurate channel modeling, how diversity techniques can improve performance over fading channels, and exploring different dimensions like time, frequency, space and code to improve wireless systems.

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WC Lecture20 Slides

This document summarizes the conclusion of a lecture on wireless communication given by Vinay Joseph from NIT Calicut. The lecture covered 3 modules: 1) a high-level analysis of wireless networks using simplified channel models, 2) point-to-point communication over fading channels, and 3) analysis of wideband wireless systems like DS-SS and OFDM using detailed channel models. Key takeaways include the importance of accurate channel modeling, how diversity techniques can improve performance over fading channels, and exploring different dimensions like time, frequency, space and code to improve wireless systems.

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Lecture 20 Wireless Communication

Monsoon semester 2021


Conclusion

Vinay Joseph

NIT Calicut

November 5, 2021

Vinay Joseph (NIT Calicut) Lecture 20 Wireless Communication


What did this course cover?

Module 1
▶ High level analysis of wireless communication networks using a
simplified model of wireless channel
▶ Careful modeling of a wireless channel

Module 2
▶ Point-to-point communication in wireless fading channel

Module 3
▶ Analysis of some wideband wireless communication and systems using
more detailed wireless channel model
⋆ Direct-sequence spread-spectrum communication and system
⋆ OFDM communication and system

Vinay Joseph (NIT Calicut) Lecture 20 Wireless Communication


Module 1
Topics
▶ Wireless communication landscape (challenges, standards, applications)
▶ Considerations for resource allocation in wireless network (e.g., fairness)
▶ Cellular concept and how it improves capacity
▶ Large-scale and small-scale propagation models
▶ Models for fading caused by interference between multiple paths can
help analyse small scale variations
▶ Key wireless channel parameters (e.g., delay spread, coherence time)

Takeaways
▶ Accurate modeling is often hard. But, carefully simplified models can
tell us a lot.
▶ If queues are involved, scaling down resources and workload
proportionally does not always help. Pooling typically helps.
▶ Try to understand a complex object by identifying key parameters
impacting it
Vinay Joseph (NIT Calicut) Lecture 20 Wireless Communication
Module 2
Topics
▶ ML rule for detection
▶ Fading significantly degrades detection performance by impacting
probability of error scaling
▶ Diversity techniques can help improve the scaling by providing time
diversity gain, antenna diversity gain and frequency diversity gain

Takeaways
▶ Remember your basics.
▶ Redundancy/diversity helps, when there is a risk of failure.
▶ Imperfect redundancy may not help. Assumptions like independence
are critical.
▶ Explore and exhaust all avenues that can provide redundancy.
▶ Try mapping new problem into an old solved problem.

Vinay Joseph (NIT Calicut) Lecture 20 Wireless Communication


Module 3
Topics
▶ Direct-sequence spread-spectrum communication and system, PN
sequences, Rake receiver
▶ OFDM communication and system
▶ System level view of wireless networks

Takeaways
▶ Explore all dimensions (time, frequency, space, code)
▶ Large number of small local decisions (e.g., power control) can have a
big impact
▶ Looking at a complex problem with a different perspective can simplify
it
▶ Simple solutions (e.g., Latin squares) have their own value, when
compared to complex better performing solutions.

Vinay Joseph (NIT Calicut) Lecture 20 Wireless Communication


Thank you and all the best!

Vinay Joseph (NIT Calicut) Lecture 20 Wireless Communication

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