Things aren't built to last these days... By Zaki musthofa at 14.24 Wow, things really aren't built to last as long as they used to. So far in the past month we've either replaced or repaired our TV ...
PE license and exams By Zaki musthofa at 19.50 The PE exam tests your ability to practice competently in a particular engineering discipline. It is designed for engineers who have gained...
Fundamental WiMAX Concepts By Zaki musthofa at 16.16 WiMAX has four fundamental architectural components: Base Station (BS) : The BS is the node that logically connects wireless subsc...
Turbo Code Applications 2 By Zaki musthofa at 03.16 Terrestrial telephony: Turbo codes are suited for down-to-earth applications such as terrestrial telephony. Satellite technology pro...
Turbo Code Applications 1 By Zaki musthofa at 03.14 Mobile radio: Few environments require more immunity to fading than those found in mobile communications. For applications where...
Motorola i886 By Zaki musthofa at 02.11 The Motorola i886 is a very solid candybar phone coated in soft touch paint for a quality feel. It has a 2.2” QVGA display with 262K co...
Samsung C3530 By Zaki musthofa at 02.07 Smartphones and big screen sizes are all the rage nowadays and even though they offer great functionality, there is still the casual u...
Nokia C3 Touch By Zaki musthofa at 02.02 This is a global GSM phone. It can be used with T-Mobile USA and AT&T . The design of the Nokia C3 Touch and Type borrows heav...
Introduction to 802.11 Standard By Zaki musthofa at 04.56 IEEE 802.11 standard specifies a 2.4 GHz operating frequency with data rates of 1 and 2 Mbps using either Direct Sequence Spread Spectr...
Basic commands and syntax in MATLAB By Zaki musthofa at 02.46 We will speak about Basic commands and syntax in MATLAB to show how we can write code in it . If you type in a valid expression and ...
Intro to MATLAB By Zaki musthofa at 02.30 MATLAB is a software package for computation in engineering, science, and applied mathematics. It offers a powerful programming languag...
Intro to UMTS By Zaki musthofa at 23.56 UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service) is a third-generation (3G) broadband, packet-based transmission of text, digitized...
What's OFDM-MIMO ? By Zaki musthofa at 01.11 Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) One building block for next-generation wireless access, MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output),...
OFDM Advantages and Disadvantages By Zaki musthofa at 01.01 The major advantage of OFDM is its robustness against multi path propagation. Thus, it is suitable to be implemented in wireless environ...
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) By Zaki musthofa at 00.46 O rthogonal F requency D ivision M ultiplexing ( OFDM ) is a multicarrier modulation technique. OFDM provides high bandwidth efficienc...
Using SC-FDMA in LTE By Zaki musthofa at 16.51 Single carrier frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) has been adopted by the third generation partnership project (3GPP) for u...
Turbo-Decoder By Zaki musthofa at 02.22 The turbo code decoder is an iterative Maximum A posteriori (MAP) algorithm. MAP algorithms use a Bayesian analysis of the channel t...
Turbo-Encoder By Zaki musthofa at 02.16 Turbo code encoders are a concatenation of systematic encoders referred to as constituent codes. (Systematic encoders pass both uncod...
What's the Turbo-code ? By Zaki musthofa at 02.10 Turbo coding is a forward error correction (FEC) scheme. Iterative decoding is the key feature of turbo codes. Turbo codes consist...
Frequency Concepts in GSM By Zaki musthofa at 09.52 An MS communicates with a BTS by transmitting or receiving radio waves, which consist of electromagnetic energy. The frequency of a ra...
Messages in CDMA By Zaki musthofa at 01.13 I want to speak about messages in CDMA , how it sent and what the call processing ** In CDMA, most call processing events are driven by me...
Adv. & DisAdv. of GSM and IS-95 By Zaki musthofa at 07.11 Advantages of 2G GSM GSM is mature; this maturity means a more stable network with robust features. Less signal deterioration inside buildin...
An intro to WiMAX By Zaki musthofa at 14.36 WiMAX ( W orldwide I nteroperability for M icrowave A ccess) ( 802.16 - 802.16e ) It was defined by the WiMAX Forum is a telecommuni...
Secret codes for Samsung By Zaki musthofa at 07.30 *#1111# -------> S/W Version *#1234# -------> Firmware Version *#2222# -------> H/W Ve...
GSM NETWORK COMPONENTS By Zaki musthofa at 07.00 The GSM network is divided into two systems. Each of these systems are comprised of a number of functional units which are individual com...
GSM PHASES By Zaki musthofa at 06.52 In the late 1980s, the groups involved in developing the GSM standard realized that within the given time-frame they could not complete ...
Basics of Optical Fibers By Zaki musthofa at 06.24 A fiber-optic system is similar to the copper wire system that fiber-optics is replacing. The difference is that fiber-optics use light...