Principles of Wireless Communications
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this advanced electrical engineering course on the design and fundamental limits of wireless transmission systems. It covers wireless channel and system models, fading and diversity, resource management and power control, multiple-antenna and MIMO systems, space-time codes and decoding algorithms, multiple-access techniques and multiuser detection, broadcast codes and precoding, cellular and ad-hoc network topologies, and OFDM and ultrawideband systems. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets, and readings drawn from MIT's graduate curriculum, distributed under a Creative Commons license. The course assumes background in probability and communications theory and builds toward the architectural tradeoffs engineers face when designing real wireless networks. No enrollment, video lectures, or certificate are involved; this is a self-study set of course materials for independent learners working through the topics at their own pace.