Syllabus

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• Course Syllabus

Syllabus

• Introduction, wireless communication history and overview

• Wireless propagation characteristics

• Channel models

• • Statistical channel model, MIMO channels

  • Wireless channel acquisition

• Diversity techniques

• Wireless channel capacity

• MIMO systems

  • Space-time codes and precoding/beamforming

  • Impacts of channel state information

  • Receiver structures

• Multicarrier and OFDMA techniques

• Multi-user systems

• Cellular and ad hoc networks

Assessment

Breakdown:

• Homework 20%,

• Midterm 20%,

• Final 30%,

• Project 25%.
  

1. Class will have bi-weekly homework.

2. The midterm exam is in-class.

3. The final is a take-home 24 hour exam.

4. The project entails research on some aspect of wireless communications.

Textbook and References

• Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

• T. S. Rappaport , Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice, 2nd Ed. Prentice Hall, 2001.

• D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.

• Andreas Molisch, Wireless communications, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2nd Ed, 2009.

• A. Paulraj, R. Nabar, and D. Gore, Introduction to Space-Time Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2003.

• J.G. Proakis and Salehi, Digital Communications, 5th Ed., McGraw-Hill: 2008.

Prerequisites

• Communication Systems (EE107 or equivalence),

• Probability and statistics (EE104 or equivalence).