ECE 257B: Principles of Wireless Networks

Material covered

Assigned Reading (mandatory):

• Rappaport, Chapter 1
• Rappaport, Chapter 2
• Rappaport, Chapter 3 (skip 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.8)
• Rappaport, Chapter 4 (skip 4.3 and 4.7.6; 4.2.1 is optional)
• Rappaport, Chapter 8 (8.7.2 is optional)
• Rappaport, Chapter 9 (9.4, 9.7, 9.8, 9.9, 9.10, 9.13 are optional)
• Rappaport, Chapter 10
• Rappaport, Appendix A
• Rappaport, Appendix B
• Acampora, Chapter 1
• Acampora, Chapter 2
• Acampora, Chapter 5
• Acampora, Chapter 6
• Section 2 of the paper: M. Zorzi, ``Fast computation of outage probability for cellular mobile radio systems,'' European Transactions on Telecommunications, vol. 6, pp. 107-113, Jan.-Feb. 1995.
• M. Zorzi, R.R. Rao, L.B. Milstein, ``On the accuracy of a first-order Markov model for data block transmission on fading channels,'' in Proc. IEEE ICUPC'95, pp. 211-215, Nov. 1995 (you may want to skip III.A).
• D. Hong, S.S. Rappaport, ``Traffic model and performance analysis for cellular mobile radio telephone systems with prioritized and non prioritized handoff procedures,'' IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology, pp. 77-92, Aug. 1986 (you may want to skip the details of the analysis in IV.B, but do get the essence of it).
• M. Zorzi, ``Mobile and Wireless Telecommunication Networks'' (available from class home page)
• R.O. LaMaire et al., ``Wireless LANs and mobile networking: standards and future directions,'' IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 34, pp. 86-94, Aug. 1996.

Suggested Reading (optional):

• K.S. Gilhousen et al., ``On the capacity of a cellular CDMA system,'' IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., vol. VT-40, pp. 303-312, May 1991.
• I. Katzela, M. Naghshineh, ``Channel assignment schemes for cellular mobile telecommunication systems: a comprehensive survey,'' IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 3, pp. 10-31, June 1996.
• M. Zorzi, ``On the analytical computation of the interference statistics with applications to the performance evaluation of mobile radio systems,'' IEEE Trans. Comm., vol. 45, pp. 103-109, Jan. 1997.
• V.M. Jovanovic, J. Gazzola, ``Capacity of present narrowband cellular systems: interference-limited or blocking-limited,'' IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, vol. 4, pp. 42-51, Dec. 1997.

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