Course

Unit 1

Indoor propagation modeling: Introduction – Interference – Indoor propagation effects – ITU indoor path loss model – Long distance path loss model – link budget. Millimeter Wave (MMW) characteristics: MMW characteristics – 60 GHz MMW radio:Principle and technology – Channel performance at 60 GHz – Gigabit wireless communications – Development of MMW standards – Coexistence with wireless backhaul.

Unit 2

Review of modulations for MMW communications: PSK – OFDM. MMW transceivers: Transceiver architecture. MMW antennas: Path loss and antenna directivity – Antenna beamwidth – Beamsteering antenna.

Unit 3

1. Kao-Cheng Huang, Zhoacheng Wang, “Millimeter Wave Communication Systems”, Wiley IEEE press, 2011.

1. John S. Seybold “Introduction to RF propagation,”John Wiley and Sons, 2005.
2. Chia-Chin Chong, Kiyoshi Hamaguchi, Peter F. M. Smulders and Su-Khiong, “Millimeter – Wave Wireless Communication Systems: Theory and Applications,” Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2007.