Wireless Digital Communications, ELEG867 (Spring of 2009)


Instructor:

Dr. Xiang-Gen Xia

Office:

311 Evans Hall

Email/Phone:

xxia@ee.udel.edu, (302)831-8038

Time:

Tu 5:15pm -- 8:00pm

Place:

Sharp Lab. 105

Office Hours:

Tu 4:00pm -- 5:00pm

Grading Policy:

  1. Homeworks: 30%
  2. (Tentative) Midterm project (Channel Modelling and Channel Equalization): 30%
  3. (Tentative) Final Project (CDMA and RAKE Receiver, TCM): 40%

Prerequisties:

Digital Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Statistical Signal Processing

Textbook:

G. L. Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communication, Second Edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2001.

References:

  1. W. C. Jakes, Microwave Mobile Communications John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1974.
  2. Kamilo Feher, Wireless Digital Communications, Prentice-Hall PTR, New Jersey, 1995.
  3. K. Pahlavan and A. H. Levesque Wireless Information Networks , John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995.
  4. J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications , McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Course Description:

This course includes some fundamental and current techniques on wireless digital communications, such as wireless channel modeling, antenna diversities, modem and equalization techniques, OFDM systems, and multiple access methods including TDMA, FDMA and CDMA systems, and finally two recent cellular mobile communication standards: GSM and IS-95.

Contents:

  1. Wireless communication channel modeling includes a basic treatment of radio propagation, such as envelop fading, Doppler spread, time delay spread, shadowing, and path loss, and antenna directional and omnidirectional fundamentals and radiation patterns.
  2. Digital modulation-demodulation (MODEM) techniques includes pulse shaping for ISI-free band-limited transmission, and adaptive channel equalization algorithms, such as LMS equalizer, zero-forcing equalizer, and decision feedback equalizer, and OFDM systems.
  3. Convolutional codes and Viterbi decoding algorithm and trellis coded modulation (TCM).
  4. Antenna diversities and space-time coding.
  5. Basics of multiple access methods includes time division multiple access (TDMA), frequency division multiple access (FDMA) and code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. IS-95.