Syllabus

Evolution of Mobile Communication Technologies: 3GPP and the standardization of mobile communication, ITU-R activities from 3G to 5G, Goals and visions of the 5G and B5G wireless communication systems, 5G use cases & system concepts, Requirements, and Key Performance Indicators. 4 Hours

Multi Antenna Tecniques, MIMO Wireless communication: MIMO System model, Spatial Multiplexing and Receiver Architecture, Uplink and Downlink data transmission, capacity bounds, achievable rate, energy, and spectral efficiency trade-off., MIMO multipath channel modeling, MIMO Zero-Forcing (ZF) Receiver, MMSE Receiver, Singular Value Decomposition of MIMO channel, Optimal MIMO Capacity-Water Filling algorithm, Asymptotic MIMO Capacity, Multiplexing architectures: Alamouti and Space-Time codes, Precoded OSTBC, Nonlinear MIMO Receiver, V-BLAST & D-BLAST, diversity-multiplexing tradeoff, MIMO multiuser communication, SDMA with multiple transmit antennas, MIMO Transmit Beamforming, Smart antennas, Multiuser MIMO-channel capacity, transmission methods. 10 Hours

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM):Single-Carrier vs. Multi-Carrier Transmission, Discrete Implementation of Multicarrier Modulation, Basic Principle of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM), OFDM Modulation and Demodulation, Cyclic Prefix in OFDM, Impact of CP on Data Rate, Bit-error rate(BER) in OFDM, Synchronization for OFDM, Effect of Carrier Frequency Offset(CFO) Effect of Sampling Clock Offset, Estimation Techniques for CFO, OFDM PAPR and its impact on system hardwire, PAPR Reduction Techniques, Clipping and Filtering, Partial Transmit Sequence, DFT Spreading, etc., SC-FDMA Receiver design, Subcarrier Mapping in SC-FDMA, MIMO-OFDM transmitter and receiver Design. 10 Hours

5G Radio access technologies: NR Physical layer, Time-Frequency Resource, Frame Structure, Radio Access Techniques, Suitability of OFDM for NR, OFDM Numerology Implementations, Multi-carrier with filtering: Filter-bank based multi-carrier, FBMC-OQAM, Universal filtered OFDM.
Multiple access techniques: NOMA, SCMA, IDMA, Physical Layer challenges: propagation, Radio Access & Resource allocation schemes
10 hours

To know the recent developments & standards for Wireless communication for 5G & Beyond.

To provide a basic understanding of 5G & beyond 5G radio access techniques.

To understand the details of key enabling technologies for advanced wireless communication such as MIMO, OFDM, New Multicarrier Modulations techniques for 5G, etc.

To learn about basic 5G NR concepts & analyse various cross layer design challenges & techniques.

Distinguish and understand the technological advances, standardsdeveloped & KPIs in wireless communications systems for 5G & Beyond.

Demonstrate a deep theoretical understanding of key enablers of advance wireless technologies.

Developing the analytical capabilities for solving various challenges of next-generation wireless communications system design.

Analyse the performance of various communications systems from a physical layer perspective.

Make students well equipped for research on cutting-edge developments in 5G communication.

Aditya K. Jagannatham, Principles of modern wireless communication systems, McGraw-Hill Education, 2015

Zaidi, Ali, et al., 5G Physical Layer: principles, models and technology components,, Academic Press , 2018

Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Sko, 5G NR: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology, Academic Press , 2018, Elsevier.

1. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications