Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training

Commitment 3 Days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
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Delivery Options Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live

COURSE OVERVIEW

Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training is designed for wireless communication engineers involved with spread spectrum systems, and managers who wish to enhance their understanding of the wireless techniques that are being used in all types of communication systems and products. It provides an overall look at many types and advantages of spread spectrum systems that are designed in wireless systems today. This Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training course covers an intuitive approach that provides a real feel for the technology, with applications that apply to both the government and commercial sectors.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?
  • 3 days of Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training with an expert instructor
  • Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Electronic Course Guide
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

  • How to perform link budgets for types of spread spectrum communications?
  • How to evaluate different types of wireless communication transceivers?
  • What methods are used for spread spectrum modems, multiple access, OFDM, and error detection/correction for digital communication systems?
  • What is multipath and how to reduce multipath and jammers?
  • What is a Global Positioning System?
  • How to use satellite communications for data communication links?
  • What techniques are being used for Broadband Communications in both commercial and military radios including networking, JTRS, Link 16, clusters, and gateway?
  • How to solve a 3 dimension Direction Finding system using interferometry?
  • Provides an understanding of concepts in wireless, data link, and digital communication techniques for both commercial and military sectors.
  • Covers digital modulation, spread spectrum modulation and demodulation, link budgets, error detection and correction, probability applications, and a broad coverage of all the elements that make up a digitally modulated data link.
  • Includes extra topics such as adaptive process to mitigate narrow band jammers in a broadband communications link, GPS, multipath, and satellite communications. Also includes Link 16, JTRS, military radios, networking link budgets, Eb/No, BER, Pe, direct sequence spread spectrum transmitters, PN code generators, DSPs, AGC, pulsed matched filters, PPM, CDMA, carrier recovery, matched filters & sliding correlators, eye pattern, phase detection, Gaussian processes, quantization error, antijam, adaptive filters, intercept receivers, GPS.
  • From this course, you will obtain the knowledge and ability to evaluate and develop the system design for wireless communication digital transceivers including spread spectrum systems
CUSTOMIZE IT
  • We can adapt this Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Wireless Communications & Spread Spectrum Design course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Wireless Communications & Spread Spectrum Design course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Wireless Communications & Spread Spectrum Design course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training course:

  • Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training is designed for wireless communication engineers involved with spread spectrum systems, and managers who wish to enhance their understanding of the wireless techniques that are being used in all types of communication systems and products
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training course are:

  • None

COURSE SYLLABUS

  1. Transceiver Design. dB power, link budgets, system design tradeoffs, gains/losses, Signal-to-Noise, Probability of Error, Bit Error Rate, Eb/No, link margin, tracking noise and signal level through a complete system, effects, and advantages of using spread spectrum techniques.
  2. Transmitter Design. Various types and system designs of spread spectrum transmitters, PSK, MSK, QAM, OFDM, Other, Pseudo-Random code generators, multiple access TDMA/CDMA/FDMA, antenna sizing, transmit/receive, local oscillator, upconverters, sideband elimination, power amplifiers, standing wave ratios. Wireless Communications and Spread Spectrum Design Training
  3. Receiver Design. Dynamic range, image rejection, limiters, minimum discernable signal, superheterodyne receivers, the importance of low noise amplifiers, 3rd order intercept point for intermodulation products, two-tone dynamic range, tangential sensitivity, phase noise, mixers, spurious signals, filters, A/D converters, aliasing, and anti-aliasing filters, digital signal processors DSPs.
  4. Automatic Gain Control Design & Phase Lock Loop Comparison. AGCs, linearizer, detector, loop filter, and integrator, using control theory and feedback systems to analyze AGCs, PLL, and AGC comparison.
  5. Demodulation. Demodulation and despreading techniques for spread spectrum systems, pulsed matched filters, sliding correlators, pulse position modulation, CDMA, coherent demod, despreading, carrier recovery, squaring loops, Costas and modified Costas loops, symbol synch, eye pattern, inter-symbol interference, phase detection, Shannon’s limit.
  6. Basic Probability and Pulse Theory. A simple approach to understanding Probability, Gaussian process, quantization error, probability of error, bit error rate, probability of detection vs probability of false alarm, error detection, and correction, interleaving, types of FECs, digital pulsed systems, pseudo-random codes for spread spectrum systems.
  7. Multipath. Specular and diffuse reflections, Rayleigh criteria, earth curvature, pulse systems, vector, and power analysis.
  8. Improving the System Against Jammers. Burst jammers, digital filters, adaptive filters simulations, and actual design results, quadrature method to eliminate unwanted sidebands, orthogonal methods to reduce jammers, and types of intercept receivers.
  9. Global Navigation Satellite Systems. Basic understanding of the Global Positioning System GPS and the spread spectrum BPSK modulated signal from space, Satellite transmission, signal structure, GPS receiver, errors, narrow correlator, selective availability SA, carrier smoothed code, Differential DGPS, Relative GPS, wide lane/narrow lane, carrier phase tracking KCPT, double difference.
  10. Satellite Communications. Communication Satellites, General Satellite Operation, Fixed Satellite Service, Geosynchronous and Geostationary Orbits, Ground Station Antennas, Carrier power, Equivalent Temperature Analysis, Multiple Channels in the Same Frequency Band, Multiple Access Schemes, Propagation Delay, Cost for Use of the Satellites, Regulations, Types of Satellites Used for Communications
  11. Broadband Communications and Networking. Mobile Users, Home Networking, Power Line Communications PLC, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, Military Radios and Data Links, The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), Software Design Radios, The Software Communications Architecture, Clusters, JTRS Network Challenge, Gateway, and Network Configurations, Link 16, TDMA, “Stacked” nets, Time Slot Re-allocation, Bit/Message Structure.
  12. DF & Interferometer Analysis. Positioning and direction finding using a simplified interferometer analysis, direction cosines, basic interferometer equation, three-dimensional approach, antenna position matrix, and coordinate conversion for moving baseline.
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