A Review of Key Wireless Physical Layer Concepts

• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Frequency, Period, and Phase
• Wavelength
• Time and Frequency Domains
• Decibels
• Coding Terminology
• Phase-Shift Keying (PSK)
• QAM
• Antenna
• Reflection, Diffraction, Scattering
• Reflection, Diffraction and Scattering
• Multipath Propagation
• Doppler Shift
• Channel Capacity
• Shannon's Theorem
• Hamming Distance
• Error Correction Example
• Convolutional Coding
• Turbo Codes
• CDMA
• Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
• Spectrum
• Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum
• DS Spectrum
• OFDM
• Summary
• Listening Assignment

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