Wireless Communications, Goldsmith, 2005
Index to: Lecture Notes (Adapted from Author’s Materials)

Part I – Core Materials

  1. Overview of Wireless Networks
  2. Path Loss and Shadowing
    1. Path Loss Modeling
    2. Shadowing
  3. Statistical Multipath Channel Modeling
    1. Empirical Measurements, Time Varying, Narrowband Modeling
    2. The Narrowband Model
    3. Additional Statistical Channel Models
  4. Capacity of Wireless Channels
    1. Flat Fading
    2. Frequency-Selective Fading
  5. Digital Modulation and Detection
  6. Performance of Digital Modulation over Wireless Channels
    1. Bit Error Probability
    2. Combining Techniques, Diversity Intro

Part II – Single User Wireless Systems

  1. Diversity
  2. Coding For Wireless Channels
  3. Adaptive Modulation and Coding
  4. Multiple Antennas and Space-Time Communications
    1. MIMO
    2. MIMO (cont.)
  5. Equalization
  6. Multi-Carrier Modulation
  7. Spread Spectrum

Part III – Multi User Wireless Systems

  1. Multi-User Systems
  2. Cellular Systems and Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks
  3. Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

Appendixes

  1. Representation of Bandpass Signals and Systems
  2. Probability Theory, Random Variables, and Random Processes
  3. Matrices
  4. Summary of Wireless Standards