UNIT I 
CELLULAR MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS : Introduction to Cellular Mobile System, Performance criteria, uniqueness of mobile radio environment, operation of cellular systems, Hexagonal shaped cells, Analog and Digital Cellular systems. 

UNIT II 
ELEMENTS OF CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEM DESIGN : General description of the problem, concept of frequency channels, Co-channel Interference Reduction Factor, desired C/I from a normal case in a omni directional Antenna system, Cell splitting, consideration of the components of Cellular system. 

UNIT III 
INTERFERENCE : Introduction to Co-Channel Interference, real time Co-Channel interference, Co-Channel measurement, design of Antenna system, Antenna parameters and their effects, diversity receiver, non-cochannel interference-different types. 

UNIT IV 
CELL COVERAGE FOR SIGNAL AND TRAFFIC : Signal reflections in flat and hilly terrain, effect of human made structures, phase difference between direct and reflected paths, constant standard deviation, straight line path loss slope, general formula for mobile propagation over water and flat open area, near and long distance propagation antenna height gain, form of a point to point model. 

UNIT V 
CELL SITE AND MOBILE ANTENNAS : Sum and difference patterns and their synthesis, omni directional antennas, directional antennas for interference reduction, space diversity antennas, umbrella pattern antennas, minimum separation of cell site antennas, high gain antennas. 

UNIT VI 
FREQUENCY MANAGEMENT AND CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT : Numbering and grouping, setup access and paging channels channel assignments to cell sites and mobile units, channel sharing and borrowing, sectorization, overlaid cells, non fixed channel assignment. 

UNIT VII 
Handoff, dropped calls and cell splitting, types of handoff, handoff invitation, delaying handoff, forced handoff, mobile assigned handoff. Intersystem handoff, cell splitting, micro cells, vehicle locating methods, dropped call rates and their evaluation. 

UNIT VIII 
DIGITAL CELLULAR NETWORKS : GSM architecture, GSM channels, multiplex access scheme , TDMA, 
CDMA. 

TEXTBOOKS : 
1. Mobile Cellular Telecommunications – W.C.Y. Lee, Tata McGraw Hill, 2rd Edn., 2006. 
2. Principles of Mobile Communications – Gordon L. Stuber, Springer International 2nd Edition, 2007. 

REFERENCES : 
1. Wireless Communications - Theodore. S. Rapport, Pearson education, 2nd Edn., 2002. 
2. Wireless and Mobile Communications – Lee McGraw Hills, 3rd Edition, 2006. 
3. Wireless Communication and Networking – Jon W. Mark and Weihua Zhqung, PHI, 2005. 
4. Wireless Communication Technology – R. Blake, Thompson Asia Pvt. Ltd., 2004.