Wireless Communications

Spring Semester 2026

Lecturers

Prof. Dr. Christoph Studer
Dr. Stefan M. Moser
Alexander Stutz-Tirri

Course Outline

This course focuses on the fundamentals of modern wireless communication systems. The course begins with the basics of wireless channels and discusses the main building blocks of modern wireless transceivers.
The topics include:

Wireless channels, multi-path propagation, and de/modulation
Geometrical and statistical channel models
Delay spread and coherence bandwidth; Doppler spread and coherence time
Diversity techniques (time, frequency, space, and multi-user) and space-time coding
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
Multi-antenna and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technologies
MIMO data detection and beamforming
Multi-user (MU) communication
Basic information theory for wireless channels
Basic forward error correction schemes
Emerging topics: millimeter-wave communication and massive MU-MIMO

The exercises cover theoretical aspects as well as the basics of software-based communication-system-modeling in MATLAB and Monte-Carlo simulation techniques.

Location / Day / Time

Lectures: ETZ E 8, Thursday, 14:15 – 16:00
Exercises: ETZ E 8, Thursday, 16:15 – 18:00

Online Resources

A detailed course schedule (lectures and exercises) and lecture notes can be found on Moodle (link can be found here).

Special Remarks

The lectures and exercises are held in English.