Spring 2007
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00-3:20 P.M. at EMCB 114
Prerequisite: ECE 5510, 5520
Credit: 3 hours
Instructor: Prof. Rong-Rong Chen rchen@ece.utah.edu
Office hours: 11:00am-12:00pm, Tuesday and Thursday, 3106 MEB, or by appointment
Phone: 801-585-7367
Course Web Page:
http://www.ece.utah.edu/~ece6962
Required Text:
D. Tse and P. Viswanath: Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, published by Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Download available from http://degas.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dtse/
Grading:
The grade distribution formula:
Homework:
Collaboration on the homework is permitted, however each student must write and submit independent solutions. No late homework will be accepted (unless an extension is granted in advance by the instructor).
Exams:
Written Exams are closed book. Calculators, laptop computers, tables of integrals, etc. are not permitted. You are allowed two sides of notes for the midterm exam. The notes must be hand-written on standard size (8.5"x11") paper, reduced size photocopying is not permitted. No make up exam will be given (unless permission is granted in advance by the instructor).
Tentative Course Outline:
I. Overview of Wireless Systems
II. The Wireless Channel
1. Multipath channels, key parameters: delay spread, coherence bandwidth, coherence time, Doppler spread.
2. Statistical fading models.
III. Point-to-Point Channels
1. Detection in fading channels: coherent and noncoherent detection
2. Diversity techniques: time diversity, antenna diversity, frequency diversity
3. Space-time codes and Alamouti Scheme
IV. Cellular Systems: multiple access and interference management
1. Narrowband system, GSM
2. Wideband system, CDMA, IS-95 standards, OFDM
V. Capacity of Wireless Channels
1. Introduction to basic information theory
2. Capacity of Gaussian channel and parallel Gaussian channels, water-filling solution
3. Capacity of fading channels, transmit and receive diversity, outage probability
VI. MIMO Communication
1. Capacity via Singular Value Decomposition, optimal signaling, beamforming
2. Linear and non-linear receiver architectures,
3. V-BLAST architecture
VII. Multiuser Capacity and Opportunistic Communication
1. Uplink and downlink AWGN channels
2. Uplink and downlink fading channels
3. Multiuser opportunistic communication