EEL 6936/4936 Wireless Communications System LaboratoryMobile and Personal Communications
Catalog Description
Providing the students with a comprehensive knowledge of most technical aspects, operations, and applications of current and future generations of cellular mobile and personal communication technologies. Offering technical, practical, and up-to-date treatment of the latest wireless communication technologies and system design implementations. Also, describing the emerging personal communications systems and emerging personal communications services. Focus is on the cellular mobile radio while Limited coverage on wireless LAN, wireless PAN, and fixed wireless will also be given. Wireless multipath channel characteristics and its effect on the system will be reviewed. Design of wireless systems to counteract the channel and radio impairments will be discussed. Trending topics in wireless communications will be introduced.
Pre-requisites
Basic knowledge of Fourier transforms and linear system analysis, digital signal processing, communication systems, programming skill in MATLAB or equivalent will be very helpful in understanding the course better. An undergraduate level “Introduction to communication systems” and an undergraduate level probability theory is an excellent preparation for this course. Students without any communications background should be prepared that certain portions of the course may be difficult to follow.
Courses that require this as a direct prerequisite
None (for Advanced Topics in Wireless Communications Course, this course might be an excellent preparation)
Courses that can form a sequence with this
EEL 6936/4936 Wireless Communications System Laboratory
EEL 7931 Selected Topics in Communications
EEL 6936 Advanced Topics in Wireless Communications
EEL 6597 Wireless Network Architecture and Protocol
EEL 6534 Digital Communication Systems
Course Summary
v Focus is on cellular mobile radio. GSM, TDMA, CDMA, OFDM(A); 3G/4G wireless cellular telephony, cellular data, cellular multimedia.
v Limited coverage on wireless LAN, wireless PAN, Wireless MAN and fixed wireless.
v Wireless channel details
Course Objectives
Ø Providing the students with a comprehensive knowledge of most technical aspects, operations, and applications of past, current and future generations of cellular mobile and personal communication technology.
Ø Offering a technical, practical and up-to-date treatment of the latest technologies, and system design implementations. Also, describing the emerging personal communications systems and emerging personal communications services.
Ø Introduction to the technology and underlying principles of wireless communications; building blocks of wireless networks; elementary examination of the science and technology of wireless communications including radio signal propagation (including multipath effect), radio channel modeling, interference-limited communications, coding, modulation, anti-fading techniques like transmit and receiver antenna diversity, equalization, etc.; essential functions of all cellular telephone systems like frequency re-use, cellular hierarchy, sectorization, handoff and power control, etc. are discussed.
Ø Review of the various standards and systems, which have been developed (including 2G, 3G, 4G systems), and basic issues involved in the design of wireless systems. Discussion of the potential problems associated with the access technology for the second/third/fourth-generation systems and providing the vision of the future-generation systems.
Ø The introduction of other subjects related to wireless communications, like spread spectrum techniques (direct sequence and code division multiple access (CDMA), frequency hopping); multicarrier techniques including orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) and multicarrier CDMA (MC-CDMA); ultra-wideband communications, etc.