ESE 505 Wireless Communications

Fall 2007

 

 

Course Objective

The use of wireless communications has expanded dramatically worldwide. Cell phones are ubiquitous. Although most such mobile terminals still carry voice principally, more and more users are sending and receiving data and image applications. Wi-Fi, an example of a wireless local area network has caught on spectacularly, joining the major cellular networks deployed throughout the world. This course provides a basic introduction to this booming field. Students are expected to come away with a thorough grounding in the fundamental aspect of wireless communications, as well as the understanding of the principles of operation of second- and third- generation cellular systems and wireless LANS.

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Course Description

This course covers first year graduate level material in the area of wireless communications:  wireless channels, modulation techniques, basic coding techniques, multiple access schemes, channel allocation, power control, accessing and scheduling techniques, resource management, handoff, and admission control. It reviews the design and provides basic analysis on the current cellular systems, wireless LAN, and personal area networks.

 

Course Outline

 

· Overview of wireless techniques

· Characteristics of the mobile radio environment–propagation phenomena

· Cellular concept and channel allocation

· Dynamic channel allocation and power control

· Modulation techniques (including OFDM)

· Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA; system capacity comparisons

· Coding for error detection and correction

· Second-generation, digital, wireless systems

· Performance analysis: admission control and handoffs

· 2.5G/3G Mobile wireless systems: packet switched data

· Access and scheduling techniques in cellular systems

· Wireless LANs and personal-area networks

Prerequisites

ESE 503 and ESE 547 are recommended (can take at the same time) or permission of instructor. Basic knowledge on probability and signal processing is expected.

 

Course Benefits

  • Obtain fundamental knowledge on wireless communications

Lecturer

Professor Xin Wang

 

Class location:

 
TBD

Class time:

Tue: 6:50-9:50 pm

Office hours:

Tue: 4:50 – 6:50 pm

Wes: 4:50 – 6:50 pm (by appointment)

Office phone:

+1 (631) 632 8402

Email address:

xwang@ece.sunysb.edu

Credits for course:

3

 

Textbook:

 

 

Reference text(s):

 

(for the class)

 

• Mischa Schwartz, Mobile Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

 

• Theodore Rappaport, Wireless Communications, Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.

 

• David Tse, Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

 

• Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

 

• Vijay K. Garg, Wireless Network Evolution: 2G to 3G, Prentice Hall, 2001.

 

• John G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th ed., Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2001.

 

Reference text(s)

(for general computer networks)

James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, Addison Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-477114.

Class notes, copies of slides and reference documents will be available whiteboard. There is also a general list of Internet resources.

Assignments:

Several homework assignments.

Project(s):

TBD.

Midterm exam:

Time TBD

Grading:

Assignments 20%, midterm 30%, final 30%, project 20%.