ee534: wireless communication and networking
Course Title: Wireless Communication and
Networking
Textbook:
Wireless Communications, Andrea Goldsmith,
Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Catalog
Description:
Fundamental principles of wireless digital communication systems and networks; key properties of the wireless communication channel; building blocks of wireless networks; design and analysis of wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks.
Course Outline:
- Overview of Wireless
Communication Systems: History of Wireless Communications,
Cellular Networks, Wireless Local Area Networks, Sensor
Networks, Satellite networks, Spectrum Allocation.
- Path Loss and Shadowing:
Overview of Signal and Linear Systems, Radio Wave
Propagation, Signal Models, Path Loss Models, Ray Tracing,
Shadow Fading, Outage Probability, Cell Coverage Area.
- Statistical
Multipath Channel Models: Channel Response,
Multi-path Fading, Narrowband Fading, Wideband Fading,
Power Delay Profile, Doppler Spread, Coherence Bandwidth,
Delay Spread, Coherence Time.
- Introduction to Information
Theory:
Information, Entropy, Mutual Information, Channel
Capacity, Shannon’s Theorem.
- Capacity of Wireless
Channels: Capacity of AWGN channels, Capacity of
Flat-fading channels, Channel Side Information.
- Digital Modulation
and Detection: Signal Space Analysis, Geometric
Representation of Signals, Maximum Likelihood Detection,
Passband Modulation Principles, Amplitude Modulation,
Phase modulation, Quadrature Amplitude Modulation,
Frequency Modulation, Minimum Shift Keying.
- Performance of Digital Modulation over Wireless Channels: Error
probability for different modulation techniques including
BPSK, MPAM, MPSK, MQAM and FSK over AWGN and fading
channels.
- Coding Techniques:
Source coding, Channel coding, Generator Matrix,
Parity-Check Matrix, Linear Block Codes, Cyclic Codes,
Trellis Diagram, Convolutional coding, Concatenated codes,
Turbo codes, LDPC codes.
- Multiple
User
Communication Systems:
Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency-Division
Multiple Access (FDMA), Code-Division Multiple Access
(CDMA), Space-Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Space-Time
Coding, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), Throughput
Calculation,
and Random Access Techniques including ALOHA, slotted
ALOHA, CSMA, and DSMA.
- Diversity:
Time, Frequency and space diversity, Multiple input
multiple output (MIMO) systems, capacity of MIMO systems,
antenna combing techniques, space-time coding, smart
antenna and adaptive beamforming.
- Cellular
Networks: Fundamentals of Cellular
Networks, Frequency Reuse, Channel Assignments, Cellular
Technologies including GSM, IS-95, EDGE, UMTS, LTE, 5G.