Wireless Communications
Spring 2026
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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.
Instructors
| Prof. Dr. Christoph Studer | Alexander Stutz-Tirri | Dr. Stefan M. Moser | |
| Office: | ETZ J83 | ETZ J61.1 | ETF E104 |
| Phone: | 044 632 05 44 | 044 632 36 24 | |
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Teaching Assistant
Antónia Barros and Torben Kölle
Time and Place
- Lecture: Thursday, 14:15–16:00, ETZ E8
- Exercise: Thursday, 16:15–18:00, ETZ E8
Online Resources
A detailed course schedule (lectures and exercises) and lecture notes will be available on Moodle.
Special Remarks
The lecture is held in English.
-||- _|_ _|_ / __|__ Stefan M. Moser 
[-] --__|__ /__\ /__ Senior Researcher & Lecturer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
_|_ -- --|- _ / / Adj. Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan
/ \ [] \| |_| / \/ Web: https://moser-isi.ethz.ch/
Last modified: Tue Apr 14 13:26:47 UTC+0200 2026