EE-735: Wireless Communication

Syllabus and Lecture Notes

Instructor: Arnab K. Shaw

Department of Electrical Engineering

Wright State University

Dayton OH 45435-0001

Tel: 937-775-5064 Fax: 937-775-3936

Email: ashaw@wright.edu

Course Outline: (R)-Rappaport; (S)-Sklar; numbers denote Chapters

The following topics will be covered over two quarters. Coverage of the material will follow the sequence as listed below. Topics remaining at the end of EE-735 will be covered in EE-746 in the Spring Quarter, 2003. Students are encouraged to choose their Course Project topics for a more in-depth study beyond class material.

· History of wireless communication, and future trends (R1, R2)

· Wireless Generations and Standards (R1, R2)

· Cellular Concept and Cellular System Fundamentals (R3)

· Trunking Cell Splitting and Sectoring (R3)

· Mobile Radio signal propagation, path loss and channel models (R4, R5)

· Large Scale Path Loss (R4)

· Small Scale Path Loss - Rayleigh and Rician Fading (R5)

· Analog Modulation Schemes for Wireless Communication - AM/FM (R6)

· Digital Modulation Techniques for Wireless Communication

· Preliminaries (S3, R6)

· Baseband Modulation Schemes : Matched Filter and Detection Theory (S4, R6)

· Bandpass Modulation Techniques (S4, S9, R6)

· Fading Counteraction – Diversity, Coding and Interleaving (R4, S15)

· Source and Channel Coding (S, R)

· Speech Coding for Wireless Communications (S, R)

· Adaptive Equalization (S, R)

· Multipath Propagation, Doppler (R)

· Multiplexing and Multiple Access techniques (R8, S11)

· TDMA (R8, S11)

· FDMA (R8, S11)

· ALOHA - Packet Radio (R8, S11)

· Spread Spectrum-CDMA (S12, R5)

· Frequency Hopped Spread Spectrum (R5, S12)

· Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) (R, S)

· ISI mitigation; Equalization (R, S)

· Random Access Protocols (S, R)

· Wireless Networking (R)

· Wireless Standards (R)

· Third generation systems and advanced topics (R)

· Wideband-CDMA, MCCDMA (R)

· OFDM principles; Comparison of OFDM and CDMA

· WLAN and Bluetooth (R)