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Prerequisites: ECE 154B and 159B, or consent of instructor.
Texts:
- T.S Rappaport, Wireless communications:
principles and practice, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
- A.S. Acampora, An introduction to broadband networks:
LANs, MANs, ATM, B-ISDN, and optical networks for integrated multimedia
telecommunications, New York: Plenum Press, 1994.
Instructor: Michele Zorzi
zorzi@ece.ucsd.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 2:15-3:15, Room 2606 or 4701 EBU1
Use of email is encouraged.
Lectures: TuTh 12:45-2:05 PM, Room 147 Sequoyah Hall
OVERVIEW
This course focuses on principles of wireless communications and wireless
networks. The course will cover the following material (tentative):
- Introduction to wireless systems
- Fundamentals of radio propagation and channel models
- Fundamentals of cellular systems
- Multiple access techniques
- Cellular systems: first generation (AMPS), second generation
(GSM, IS-95)
- Wireless Local Area Networks
- Fundamentals of broadband networking
- Third generation systems and advanced topics
As part of the course work, students are required to write a paper
on a topic relevant to wireless communications. This paper can be
either a thorough literature search on a specific topic, or a
study presenting an original research contribution in the field.
Papers should be 10-15 pages long, and should demonstrate
understanding of the material taught and of the issues involved.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
(this describes what is actually done in class or is assigned as
required reading; detailed reading requirements are given in the
homeworks; please check back for frequent updates)
- lectures 1-2 (Jan. 6 & 8):
introduction to wireless systems (Rappaport Chapter 1);
main technical challenges (unreliable channel, limited bandwidth and need for
mobility support) and possible solutions; types of wireless systems.
- lectures 3-4 (Jan. 13 & 15):
fundamental of radio propagation and characterization
of the land-mobile radio channel - deterministic path loss, log-normal
shadowing, Rayleigh fading (Rappaport Chapters 3-4)
- lecture 5 (Jan. 20):
Introduction to broadband networks (Dr. A. Acampora)
- lecture 6 (Jan. 22): missed, to be rescheduled
- lecture 7 (Jan. 27): queueing and blocking models, the M/M/m and M/M/m/m
queues, Erlang's blocking formulas (Dr. R.R. Rao)
- lecture 8 (Jan. 29): correlation properties of the Rayleigh fading process,
Markov models for packet communications
- lectures 9-10 (Feb. 3 & 5):
fundamentals of cellular system design; frequency reuse;
interference computation and system capacity; outage probability computation;
cell sectorization (Rappaport Chapter 2)
- lectures 11-12 (Feb. 10 & 12):
more on outage probability computation; base station assignment;
cell splitting and sectorization; channel assignment strategies
(Rappaport Chapter 2)
- lecture 13 (Feb. 17):
handoff; analysis of handoff with and without priorities
(paper by Hong and Rappaport, IEEE Trans. VT 1986)
- lecture 14 (Feb. 19):
multiple access techniques - TDMA, FDMA and CDMA (Rappaport Chapter 8)
- lecture 15 (Feb. 24):
multiple access techniques for packet radio -
ALOHA, slotted ALOHA, CSMA, PRMA, capture effect
(Rappaport Chapters 8 and 9.12)
- lecture 16 (Feb. 26):
multiple access techniques for packet radio -
ALOHA, slotted ALOHA, CSMA, PRMA, capture effect
- lecture 17 (Mar. 3): CLASS EXAM on material covered in the three
homework assignments
- lecture 18 (Mar. 5):
second generation systems: the European standard GSM (Rappaport Chapter 10.3)
- lecture 6b (Mar. 6):
second generation systems: the CDMA standard IS-95 (Rappaport Chapter 10.4),
Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD, Rappaport Chapter ??)
- lecture 19 (Mar. 10):
Wireless Local Area Networks (paper by LaMaire et al., IEEE Communications
Magazine Aug. 1996).
- lecture 20 (Mar. 12):
third generation systems and research issues (book chapter by M. Zorzi)
The final grade will be based on:
- Problem sets (will be assigned in class and posted on this site)
- Midterm Exam
- Final paper (described above)
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