Week 1 Overview of Wireless Communications: History of wireless communications, Wireless vision, Technical
issues on wireless communications, Current wireless systems, Wireless spectrum.
Week 2 Path Loss and Shadowing: Radio wave propagation, Transmit and receive signal models, Free-space path
loss, Ray tracing, Empirical path loss models, Shadow fading, Combined path loss and shadowing, outage probability
under path loss and shadowing.
Week 3-4 Statistical Multipath Channel Models: Time-varying channel impulse response, Narrowband fading models,
Power spectrum density, Power distributions, Wideband fading models, Power delay profile, Coherence bandwidth,
Doppler power spectrum and channel coherence time.
Week 5 Capacity of Wireless Channels: Capacity in AWGN, Capacity of flat fading channels, Capacity of frequency-
selective fading channels.
Week 6 Digital Modulation and Detection: Signal space analysis, Amplitude and phase modulation (MPAM, MPSK,
MQAM, Differential modulation), Frequency modulation (FSK, MSK, CPFSK), Pulse shaping.
Week 7 Performance of Digital Modulation over Wireless Channels: Performance of digital modulation over AWGN
channels, Performance of digital modulation over fading channels, Doppler spread, Intersymbol interference.
Weeks 8-10 Diversity Techniques: Realization of independent fading paths, Receiver diversity, Selection combining,
Equal-gain combining, Maximal-ratio combining, Transmitter diversity, Alamouti scheme, Space-time block coding.
Week 11 Coding and Interleaving: Error detection and ARQ, Forward error correction coding, Channel coding, Block
codes, Hamming distance, Linear block codes, Hamming codes, Generator matrix, Parity check matrix, Syndrome
testing, Interleaving.
Week 12 Adaptive Modulation: Introduction to adaptive modulation, Variable-rate techniques, Variable-power
techniques, Variable-rate variable-power MQAM, Constant-rate MQAM with power control.
Weeks 13-15 MIMO Systems: Narrowband MIMO model, Decomposition of MIMO channel, MIMO channel capacity,
MIMO diversity, Beamforming, MIMO Spatial multiplexing, Eigenmode transmission, V-BLAST transmission, Diversity-
multiplexing tradeoff.
Weeks 16 Multicarrier Modulation: ISI countermeasures, Multicarrier modulation basics, Mitigation of subcarrier fading,
Discrete implementation of multicarrier modulation, OFDM, Matrix representation of OFDM, Vector coding, Peak-to-
average power ratio, Frequency and timing offset.
Laboratory:
Lab1: BER simulation for QPSK in AWGN Channel, The characteristics of the wireless channel, Bits stream
generation, Bit Error Rate measurement.
Lab2: USRP Hardware Architecture, Mobile communication system, USRP hardware diagram, USRP connection,
Most-used USRP functions, Building a Basic Sine Generation VI, Programming the RF Signal Analyzer.
Lab3: Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM), Communication system over wireless channel, Bit-to-symbol
mapping, Constellation, Maximum-likelihood receiver, Packet format, Building QAM mod. & demod. VI, Bit Error Rate
simulation and USRP experiment.