General Information

Lecture – 12:30 to 1:45, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Fine Arts Room 208
Instructor: Dr. Cory Beard
3 Credit Hours

Text:

Andreas F. Molisch, Wireless Communications, IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, 2005, ISBN 0-470-84888-X

Prerequisites

CS 511 or ECE 590T or consent of instructor.  Consent of the instructor will be based on the student's ability to be proficient in Chapters 11, 12, and 14 of the textbook without covering the material in class.

Course Description

Principles of the design and analysis of wireless communications. Study of propagation mechanisms, statistical characterization of wireless channels, diversity and MIMO, spread spectrum and CDMA, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).

Syllabus

1. Introduction (Chapters 1-3).
2. Propagation mechanisms (Chapter 4).
3. Statistical description of the wireless channel (Chapter 5).
4. Wideband and directional channel characterization (Chapter 6).
5. Channel models (Chapter 7).
6. Channel sounding (Chapter 8).
7. Antennas (Chapter 9).
8. Diversity (Chapter 13).
9. Multiple access and the cellular principle (Chapter 17).
10. Spread spectrum systems (Chapter 18).
11. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) (Chapter 19).
12. Multiantenna systems (Chapter 20).
13. Overview of Standardized Wireless Systems (Chapter 21-24).