Instructor: Ismail Guvenc
Office: EB2-3060, Phone: 919-513-1378, e-mail: iguvenc@ncsu.edu
Course Hours: Monday/Wednesday 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Location: 1226 Engineering Building 2, Centennial Campus
Office Hours (In Class Section): Wednesdays 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM or with an appointment
Course Material and Discussions: All course material will be accessible through Moodle and course discussions will happen in Moodle.
Teaching Assistant: N/A
Prerequisites: ECE 402 Communications Engineering
Course Description: A study of applications of communications theory and signal processing to wireless systems. Topics include an introduction to information theory and coding, basics and channel models for wireless communications, and some important wireless communication techniques including spread-spectrum and OFDM. MATLAB exercises expose students to engineering considerations.
Textbook:
A. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (e-book available in the library).
J. G. Proakis and M. Salehi, Fundamentals of Communication Systems, Second Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2014.
Grading:
The course will be graded based on Homeworks (30%), Test 1 (30%) and Final (Test 2, 40%). Letter grade and +/- grading policy will used for the final course grade. This course cannot be taken for S/U grading. You may use n hand-written sheets of notes (8.5’’ by 11” letter-sized or equivalent) for test n. Otherwise exams are closed book and notes. Calculators may be used. Makeup will be scheduled only under extreme, well-documented circumstances.
Course Outline:
This outline is tentative and may be modified during the semester. Updates will be announced in class or in the course slides.
Thrust 1 – Wireless Channels (Goldsmith: 2.1-2.3, 2.6-2.9, 3.1; Proakis/Salehi: 1.3, 1.4, 14.1, 14.2, 14.5)
Wireless channel characteristics and modeling
Thrust 2 – Wireless Communication Systems (Proakis/Salehi: 11.1-6, 15.1-5; Goldsmith: 10.1-5)
Multicarrier modulation and OFDM systems
Spread spectrum and CDMA systems
Multi-antenna systems (MIMO)
Thrust 3 – Basics of Information Theory and Coding (Proakis/Salehi: 2.5, 5.1-5.3, 12.1-12.6, 13.1)
Review of probability and random processes
Information measure
Basics of information theory
Practical source and channel coding
Thrust 4 – Overview of Wireless Industry – (Goldsmith: Chapter 1 and Appendix D; Proakis/Salehi; 1.1, 1.2, 15.7)
Introduction to the wireless industry