Mobile and Personal Communication Networks

COURSE CONTENTS

THEORY

• Introduction: mobile communications systems. Definitions, categories,
• Mobile telephone systems,
• Channel Characterization in mobile communications,
• Propagation of signals,
• Radio coverage models,
• Development of empirical models,
• Telecommunication traffic, quality of service,
• Cellular mobile communications systems
• Installation of base stations

LABORATORY

•  Installation of base stations,
•  Studies of radio coverage,
•  Studies of frequency assignment,
•  Studies of interference,
•  Development of systems for electromagnetic field measurements.

RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY

• The Mobile Radio Propagation Channel, David Parson, Pentech Press
• Mobile Communications Engineering: Theory and Applications, William C.Y.Lee, McGraw-Hill Series on Telecommunications
• Mobile Callular Telecommunications (2nd Edition), William C.Y. Lee,McGraw-Hill
• An Introduction to GSM, Siegmund M. Redl, Matthias K. Weber, Malcolm W. Oliphant, Artech House, Mobile Communications Series
• Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems, William C.Y. Lee, MacGraw-Hill
• Microwaves Mobile Communications, Jakes, Wiley Interscience
• Wireless Communications, Theodore S. Rappaport, Prentice Hall
• Principles of Mobile Communications, Gordon L. Stuber, Kluwer  Academic Publishers
• Τhe GSM System for Mobile Communications, Michel Mouly, MarieBernadette, Pautet, Prentice Hall
• Cell Planning for Wireless Communications, Manuel F. Catedra, et al, Artech House Mobile Communications Library
• Cellular Communications: Worldwide Market Development (Artech House), Garry A. Garrard, Garry Gerrard, Artech House
• GSM and Personal Communications Handbook, Siegmund Redl, Artech House Mobile Communications Library
• The Mobile Communications Handbook, Jerry D. Gibson, R.C. Dorf, Electrical Engineering Handbook Series
• Third Generation Mobile Communications Systems, Ramjee Prasad, Warner Mohr, Artech House