Wireless Communications

Target Audience:

Students interested in fundamental knowledge about wireless communications, as well as basics of the contemporary 3rd, 4th and 5th generation wireless systems.

Bulletin Description:

  • Wireless communication systems. System design fundamentals. Trunking theory. Mobile radio propagation. Reflection of radio waves. Fading and multipath. Modulation techniques; signal space; probability of error, spread spectrum. Diversity. Multiple access.

New Material:

  • 3rd, 4th and 5th generation wireless systems

Content

  • History, types of services 1.1, 1.2, 1.4; Requirements for services; Fundamental problems of wireless 1.3, 2

  • Noise- and interference limitation; Link budget 3; Fundamental propagation effects 4.1, 4.2, 4.31, 4.4.1, 4.5, App. 4A

  • Antennas 9; Fading 5.1-5.4,

  • Delay dispersion 6.1-6.3;

  • Channel models 7.1-7.5; Communications block diagram 10

  • Modulation formats 11.1-11.3.2; Modulation formats 11.3.3-11.3.11

  • Modulator structure 12.1; BER in fading channels 12.2-12.3

  • Diversity principles 13.1-13.3, 13.6; Performance of diversity systems 13.4-13.5

  • Error-correcting codes 14.1-14.3, 14.4;

  • FDMA, TDMA, cellular principle 17.1-17.3, 17.5, 17.6

  • Equalization

  • GSM

  • CDMA 18.1-18.2; CDMA II 18.3-18.4

  • OFDM I 19.1-19.4; OFDM II 19.5, 19.8, 19.9-19.11

  • Wireless LAN

  • LTE – 4th Generation Wireless

  • 5G Wireless

  • Contemporary topics in wireless: Cellular in the cloud, software defined networking, ...

Possibilities for Literature Review or Projects

  • VoLTE (Voice over LTE)

  • MIMO (multiple input multiple output systems)

  • Massive MIMO

  • System aspects of 5th generation system

  • Cellular network virtualization

  • Low Latency

  • Emerging Modulation Formats

  • Simulations

Course: Open to all SEAS students.

  • Spring 2015: Electrical Engineering ELEN E4703 :: Location TBA :: F 10:10a - 12:40p

Additional Material

  • IEEE Communications Magazine

  • Matlab simulation code - matlab and simuling

  • Expert speakers from industry

Books, Tools and Resources

    • Required Textbook:

      • Wireless Communications (Wiley - IEEE), Andreas F. Molisch

      • Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (December 1, 2010) ISBN-10: 0470741864, ISBN-13: 978-0470741863

      • Recommended textbook:

      • Simulation and Software Radio for Mobile Communications , Hiroshi Harada, Ramjee Prasad

      • Publisher: Artech House Publisher ISBN-10: 1580530443, ISBN-13: 978-1580530446

      • Matlab: https://portal.seas.columbia.edu/matlab/