Introduction to mobile communication. Cellular mobile telephone architecture overview; Cellular radio system design– Frequency assignments, frequency reuse channels. Concept of cell splitting. Handover in cellular systems. Handoff algorithms; Multiple access schemes in mobile communications–TDMA, FDMA, CDMA. Random Multiple Access Schemes. Performance analysis issues. MAC layer scheduling and connection admission in mobile communication. Interference suppression and Power control; Teletraffic modelling and Queuing theoretic analysis of cellular mobile networks. Resource allocation and mobility management; Practical Cellular mobile systems– AMPS and GSM system architecture overview. Call management and system operation. CDMA based cellular system. Wireless in Local Loop–DECT and CDMA WLL.