ECEN 478
Introduction of Wireless Communications
Spring of 2012
(For senior or first-year
graduate students)
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Instructor:
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Course
Description:
This
course will cover various basic topics in wireless communications for voice,
data, and multimedia. It begins with an overview of current wireless systems
and standards. It then characterizes the wireless channel, including path loss
for different environments, random log-normal
shadowing due to signal attenuation, and the flat vs. frequency-selective
properties of multipath fading. It then examines the fundamental capacity
limits of wireless channels and the characteristics of the capacity-achieving
transmission strategies. The next focus will be on practical digital modulation
techniques and their performance under wireless channel impairments. The next
part of the course is spent investigating techniques to improve the speed and
performance of wireless links, which includes the design and performance
analysis of diversity techniques to compensate for flat-fading,
with an introduction to multi-antenna systems. Multicarrier techniques to
combat frequency-selective fading are then examined and the course concludes
with discussing various practical multiple access schemes in wireless
systems.
Class website: http://ece.tamu.edu/~cui/ECEN478
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Class Time and
Location: T/Th, 8:00am~9:15am, Zachry 223B.
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Textbook:
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Andrea
Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
The list of typos from the
publisher.
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Exams and
homework
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One
midterm exam and one final
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Weekly
homework assignments
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Grading Policy
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Homework
20%
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Quizzes
and class participation 10%
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Midterm
25%
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Final
45%
8.
Handouts
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Lecture 3: Wireless Channel Capacity