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ECE-585

ECE-585: Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
Spring 2010, TR-9:30-10:45am, BW-123

Instructor: Dr. Ali Abedi, Office: ESRB-275, E-mail: abedi AT eece.maine.edu

Course description:Offering this course is motivated by two main developments in wireless communications in the past decade. First is the huge surge of research activities in physical-layer wireless communication theory. While this has been a subject of study since the 60’s, recent developments in the field, such as opportunistic and multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication techniques, have brought completely new perspectives on how to communicate over wireless channels. Second is the rapid evolution of wireless systems, particularly cellular networks, which embody communication concepts of increasing sophistication. This evolution started with second-generation digital standards, particularly the IS-95 Code Division Multiple Access standard, and continuing onto more recent third-generation systems focusing on data applications. This course aims to present the modern wireless communication concepts in a coherent and unified manner and to illustrate the concepts in the broader context of the wireless systems on which they have been applied.

References:

• Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, David Tse, University of California, Berkeley and Pramod Viswanath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Cambridge University Press, May 2005
• Wireless Communication Standards: A Study of IEEE 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16, Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University, IEEE Press, Aug 2004

Content: The contents of this course can be structured into three levels:

1. Channel characteristics and modeling
2. Communication concepts and techniques
3. Application of these concepts in a system context

A wireless communication engineer should have an understanding of the concepts at all three levels as well as the tight interplay between the levels. This course emphasizes this interplay by interlacing the lectures across these levels rather than presenting the topics sequentially from one level to the next.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to wireless systems
• Chapter 2: basic properties of multi-path wireless channels and their modeling
• Chapter 3: point-to-point communication techniques that increase reliability by exploiting time, frequency and spatial diversity
• Chapter 4: cellular system design via a case study of three systems, focusing on multiple access and interference management issues
• Chapter 5: point-to-point communication revisited from a more fundamental capacity point of view, culminating in the modern concept of opportunistic communication
• Chapter 6: wireless communications standards

Grading Scheme:
Students’ performance is evaluated with homework, quizzes, a midterm, and a final project.

If the student fails in both midterm and final project the homework will count for 0%.

Prerequisite:

• ECE 383, or CHB 350, or MAT 332, or ECE 515 or Instructor’s permission

Disability statement:

Students with disabilities who may need services or accommodations to fully participate in this class should contact Ann Smith, Director of Disability Services in 121 East Annex, (voice) 581-2319, (TTY) 581-2325 as early as possible in the semester.