Department of Physics

18106  Mobile Communications   

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/PHYS275/ 

Course Content

• Introduction to mobile communications, definitions, historical overview of technologies, functionality
• Cellular structure: Frequency reuse, One-dimensional cellular systems, Two-dimensional cellular systems, Channel assignment techniques, Interference and system capacity, Telecommunication traffic in cellular systems
• General Principles of Radio Wave Propagation in a mobile communications environment: Power balance of wireless links from loss models, Outdoor - indoor models, multipath parameters, second order statistics.
• Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, Spread Spectrum (FHMA, CDMA, Hybrid), SDMA.
• 4th and 5th generation system architecture and technologies