Prerequisite: ENTS689A or ENTS656. Restricted to ENTS majors. All non-majors will need to obtain permission from the department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENTS689E or ENTS665. Some of the key concepts and technologies used in the design of third generation (3G) wireless networks and standards are presented. It will start with a review of wireless CDMA concepts and terminolgies followed by a more detailed discussion of new concepts and methodologies adopted in the next generation systems of efficiently support multimedia high-speed data traffic. Some of the key concepts include link adaptation, scheduling, space-time and other diversity techniques as well as advanced channel and source coding. As many techniques and concepts are similar across different 3G standards, which will initially focus on details of channelization and protocol designs for one of 3G technologies, i.e. CDMA2000 family of standards. Based on this foundation, we will then present overviews of other standards, e.g. EDGE, WCDMA and TD-CDMA emphasizing on their similarities and differences with CDMA2000. In addition to air interface features the course also presents network elements and architectures and as well as engineering considerations for 3G radio network dimensioning.