Syllabus

Module 1: 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

Module 2: 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

Module 3: 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

Module 4: 5G Radio access technologies: NR Physical layer, Time-Frequency Resource, Frame Structure, 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 and hardware related.
Multi-Antenna Techniques: Massive MIMO, Pilot design for massive MIMO, CSI acquisition, Downlink and Uplink MIMO transmission, Resource allocation Beam management, Millimeter-wave communications: radio wave propagation, physical layer design, and algorithms, channel modeling, channel estimation. [4+2+4] Hours

To know the recent developments & standards for Wireless communication.

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

To learn about 5G NR concepts & various design challenges.

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

CO1: Distinguish and understand the technological advances and standards in wireless communications systems.
CO2: Demonstrate a deep theoretical understanding of key enablers of current wireless technologies.
CO3: Developing an analytical capability for solving various problems of next-generation wireless communications
CO4: Analyse the performance of various communications systems from a physical layer perspective.
CO5: Make students well equipped for research on cutting-edge developments in wireless communication.

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

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

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

T. S. Rappaport, R. W. Heath Jr., R. C. Daniels, and J. M. Murdock, Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication, Pearson Education , 2015

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications