Wireless Digital Communications

Explore the fundamentals of digital communications in this comprehensive course, covering everything from core principles to advanced techniques used in today's wireless networks. Discover how wireless technology is evolving beyond personal connections to encompass a vast ecosystem of interconnected devices and objects.

This course utilizes over 200 illustrative slides to provide a deep dive into digital modulation techniques, including the widely used Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). You'll learn to analyze the performance of QAM and understand its crucial role in modern wireless systems, including the latest 5G and Wi-Fi standards. We'll explore high-order modulation schemes like 256-QAM and 1024-QAM, and how they unlock significantly higher data rates through increased spectral efficiency.

Learn how to adapt data rates and signal robustness to various deployment conditions through strategic modulation and coding.

Key topics covered include:

• Channel Models: Understanding the characteristics of wireless channels.
• Modulation: A detailed examination of various modulation schemes.
• Link Adaptation: Optimizing communication links for performance.
• Binary Communications: Exploring fundamental concepts like entropy and Shannon Capacity.
• Pulse Shaping: Techniques for shaping pulses to improve signal quality.
• Multi-level Modulation: Investigating modulation methods beyond simple binary signals.
• Power Spectral Analysis: Analyzing the power distribution of signals.
• Error Performance for QAM: Evaluating the performance of QAM in the presence of errors.
• Error-Control Coding: Implementing techniques to mitigate errors.
• Signal Estimation and Noise in Digital Communications: Understanding and mitigating noise.
• Multiple Access Communications: Exploring techniques for sharing wireless resources.

About the Instructor:

This course is led by a highly experienced instructor with a distinguished career in wireless communications. He served as a technical editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine for 10 years and has also guest edited for the IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. His expertise is widely recognized, with his IEEE online tutorials sponsored 8 times by industry and his research featured in IEEE Spectrum. He has received two IEEE best paper awards and was invited by the National Science Foundation to participate in a workshop on Residential Broadband. He was also awarded the National Association of Broadcasters Technology Innovation Award. Furthermore, he has served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer with 10 invited lectures worldwide and as an expert witness.