Lectures: Part I

1. Introduction
   
2. The wireless channel
   
   • Physical modeling for wireless channels
   • Input/output model for the wireless channel
   • Time and frequency coherence
   • Statistical channel models
3. Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity, and channel uncertainty
   
   • Detection in a Rayleigh fading channel
   • Time diversity
   • Antenna diversity
   • Frequency diversity
   • Impact of channel uncertainty
4. Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management
   
   • Narrowband cellular systems
   • Wideband systems: CDMA
   • Wideband systems: OFDM

Lectures: Part II

1. Capacity of wireless channels
   
   • AWGN channel capacity
   • Resources of the AWGN capacity
   • Linear time-invariant Gaussian channels
   • Capacity of fading channels
2. Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication
   
   • Uplink AWGN channel
   • Downlink AWGN channel
   • Uplink fading channel
   • Frequency-selective fading channels
   • Multiuser diversity
   • Multiuser diversity: system aspects
3. MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling
   
   • Multiplexing capacity of deterministic MIMO channels
   • Physical modeling of MIMO channels
   • Modeling of MIMO fading channels
4. MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures
   
   • The V-BLAST architecture
   • Fast fading MIMO channel
   • Receiver architectures
   • Slow fading MIMO channel
   • D-BLAST: an outage-optimal architecture
5. MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing tradeoff and universal space-time codes
   
   • Diversity-multiplexing tradeoff
   • Universal code design for optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff
   • Universal code design for MISO channels
   • Universal code design for MIMO channels
6. MIMO IV: multiuser communications
   
   • Uplink with multiple receive antennas
   • MIMO uplink
   • Downlink with multiple transmit antennas
   • MIMO downlink