Spread Spectrum and CDMA (EE/NIS651)

Covers fundamentals of digital communication that have emerged as the basis for many techniques employed in the generation of spread spectrum waveform. These include pseudo-random codes, modulation and demodulation techniques, synchronization, statistical distributions, direct sequence (DS) and frequency hopping (FH) spread spectrum, and capacity calculation for a CDMA system. Gain an overview of wireless architecture, spread spectrum communication, statistical distributions used in wireless communication, design of optimum receivers, calculation of theoretical capacity of a CDMA system, coding and decoding processes in CDMA, effects of co-channel interference in CDMA, and synchronization in CDMA wireless communication systems. 3G wireless systems using CDMA technologies are also studied in this course.