EECE 4180/5820 Wireless Communication

Class INFO:

This course is concerned with wireless systems and design principles. It discusses co-channel and adjacent channel interference, mobile radio propagation and determination of large scale path loss, propagation mechanisms like reflection, diffraction and scattering. Students learn to use industry standard outdoor propagation models such as Okumura and Hata and Cost-231. The course introduces small scale fading and multipath, Doppler shift and effects, statistical models for multipath, digital modulation techniques QPSK, DPSK, GMSK, multiple access techniques, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, spread spectrum techniques, frequency hopped systems, wireless systems and worldwide standards.

Course Objectives: At the end of this course you should be able to:

1. Calculate a wireless system link budget and understand the effects of coverage reliability and data rate on the expected coverage radius
2. Understand how Attenuation, Shadowing and Fading effect wireless signals.
3. Use an Erlang-B table to calculate blocking probability, number of trunks required and maximum number of users supported
4. Understand basic Wireless Propagation models including Line of Sight, Reflection with partial cancellation.
5. Understand effects of Multipath and Doppler Spread on high speed wireless communication.
6. Understand the use of Diversity and other techniques to combat fading.

EECE 4180 versus EECE 5820: Students taking the course for graduate credit are required to do an extra project and at times to read different and more involved papers from the literature.

Computer Usage: 2 or 3 Computer/Matlab exercises

Grading: Mid Term (35%), Final Exam (45%), Computer Problems (15%), Participation in class (5%), There may be a measurement project depending on availability of test phones.

Relationship of Course to ECE Outcomes: 1,6

 The class is divided into 3 sections: 1) Propagation of radio waves and the wireless channel, 2) Techniques used for wireless communication and 3) Standards and Systems used for modern wireless communication. Students Taking EECE 5820 are required to do an extra project and to do several extra and more difficult readings.

Course Perquisites: 1) Undergraduate Electromagnetics, 2) Undergraduate Probability Course, 3) Undergraduate Signals and Systems

Room: Ball 326, Time: Tues 1830-2115

Important Announcements

  The 10 Commandments for Wireless Engineers

Class Resources:

Class notes are available in the “schedule” section and are password protected. Please get password at first class!

Syllabus: 16582SyllabusSpring2019

Website for Tech Note 101: http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/pub/ntia-rpt/tn101/

Website for COST-231 Documents:

Slides on Digital Filter Design, Using FDA Tool

NEW MATLAB Tutorial (from Mathworks)

NEW! Celll Phone Field Test Codes

DOCUMENTS about Human Exposure to RF radiation: Myths and Truth (all from the FCC)

A local official guide to human exposure to wireless signals

FCC Document OET-65 for calculating human exposure to nonionizing RF radiation

Summary Of Human Exposure To Radio Frequency Radiation

FCC Document OET-56 on Human Exposure to RF radiation

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