Communication Engineering

Lecture Notes on Mobile Communication

A Curriculum Development Cell Project Under QIP, IIT Guwahati

Dr. Abhijit Mitra

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Guwahati – 781039, India November 2009

Preface

It’s been many years that I’m teaching the subject “Mobile Communication” (EC632) to the IIT Guwahati students and the current lecture notes intend to act as a supplement to that course so that our students can have an access to this course anytime. This course is mainly aimed toward senior year students of the ECE discipline, and in particular, for the final year BTech, first year MTech and PhD students. However, this does not necessarily imply that any other discipline students can not study this course. Rather, they also should delve deeper into this course since mobile communication is a familiar term to everyone nowadays. Although the communication aspects of this subject depends on the fundamentals of another interesting subject, communication engineering, I would strongly advocate the engineering students to go through the same in order to grow up adequate interest in this field. In fact, the present lecture notes are designed in such a way that even a non-ECE student also would get certain basic notions of this subject. The entire lecture notes are broadly divided into 8 chapters, which, I consider to be most rudimentary topics to know the basics of this subject. The advance level topics are avoided intensionally so as to give space to the possibility of developing another lecture note in that area. In fact, this area is so vast and changing so fast over time, there is no limit of discussing the advanced level topics. The current focus has been therefore to deal with those main topics which would give a senior student sufficient exposure to this field to carry out further study and/or research. Initially, after dealing with the introductory concepts (i.e., what is mobile communication, how...