The course mobile communications covers many aspects of mobile and wireless communication systems. The following chapters will be covered (don't be afraid of the acronyms - they will be introduced during the course):

• Introduction: applications, history, market vision, overview
• Wireless Transmission: frequencies & regulations, signals, antennas, MIMO, signal propagation, multiplexing, modulation, spread spectrum, SDR, cellular system
• Medium Access Control: motivation, SDMA, FDMA, TDMA (fixed, Aloha, CSMA, DAMA, PRMA, MACA, collision avoidance, polling), CDMA
• Telecommunication Systems: GSM (HSCSD, GPRS), DECT, TETRA, UMTS/IMT-2000, LTE
• Wireless LAN: infrastructure/ad-hoc, IEEE 802.11 (a, b, g, h, n ...), mobile QoS, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15, ZigBee
• Mobile Network Layer: Mobile IP, DHCP, ad-hoc networks, routing optimization
• Mobile Transport Layer: traditional TCP, proxy architectures, wireless TCP
• Outlook: 4th generation, all IP-based networks, always best connected, LTE advanced