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Wireless Communication Systems 7.5p

Course Description

The course shall provide the general understanding and knowledge of wireless communication systems needed for assessing different techniques for wireless communication in specific applications. The course shall provide an understanding of the factors that influence and limit the performance of different wireless communication systems, and general knowledge of the methods used in the system in order to adapt them to prevailing circumstances. Knowledge of existing standards shall also be provided within the framework of the course. The students shall also gain experience from penetrating more deeply into a specific sub-area.

The course includes: multi-access methods (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA), antennas, signal propagation, fading, digital modulation, spread spectrum, error correcting codes.

Instructions consist of lectures and a project assignment. Examination is by written exam and presentation of the project in writing. The course encompasses four credit points of theory and one credit of project work. Grades for the entire course are assigned on the scale 3, 4, 5 or fail.

Course material

Lecture slides

Old exam and solution (2005)

Reading instructions

Introduction to wireless communication

Introduction, the electromagnetic wave

Wave propagation

Antennas

Link budget

Information theory, Channel models

Modulation, Channel coding

Multiuser system

The wireless communication exam contains all lectures and the following chapters in William Stallings book.

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Appendix B
Appendix C

Project areas

The project can be of various kinds, essay, simulation, implementation etc. The result of the project should be a written report, approx. 8 pages.

Three different kinds of project types:

Writing an essay on a specific topic.

Simulation study.

Implementation study (hardware or software)

Examples of interesting subjects (in the area of wireless communication system) to write an essay on:

UWB
Personal Area Networks
RFID
RF Positioning

4G mobile phone system
EDGE
IMS
The economical situation of mobile operators in Europe
Does the promises of 3G holds
I-mode

Digital radio in Sweden
Digital television
RDS

Hiper LAN
Handover in wireless LANs (IEEE 802.11)
Interference between 802.11b and Bluetooth

Wireless communication technologies for ubiquitous computing
Wireless communication technologies for telematic systems
Security in Wireless LAN's

Examples of interesting simulation studies:

Simulate the performance of some modulation schem
Simulate the performance of some channel coding method

Examples of interesting implementation studies:

Build a simple radio receiver
Build a simple radio transmitter

Literature

Wireless Communications and Networks (course literature)
W. Stallings
ISBN:0-13-040864-6

Wireless Communication (course literature)
T. S. Rappaport
ISBN:0-13-375536-3

Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications
B. Sklar
ISBN:0-13-084788-7

Wireless Communications
A. F. Molisch
ISBN:978-0-470-74186-3

Error Control Coding: Fundamentals and Applications
S. Lin and D. J. Costello
ISBN:0-13-283796-x

Digital Communication
J. G. Proakis
ISBN:0-07-231111-3

Mobile Communications
J. Schiller
ISBN:0-321-12381-6

Mobile Commerce and Wireless Computing Systems
G. Elliott and N. Philips
ISBN:0-201-75240-9

Understanding GPS, Principles and Applications
ISBN:0-89006-793-7

IEEE 802.11 Handbook, A designers Companion
B. O'Hara A. Petrick
ISBN: 0-7381-1855-9

Bluetooth Connect without cables
J. Bray and C. F. Sturman
ISBN 0-13-089840-6

RF and Microwave Circuit Design for Wireless Communication
L. E. Larsson
ISBN: 0-89006-818-6

RF microelectronics
Nehazad Razavi
ISBN:0-13-887571-5

Antenna Theory
C. A. Balanis
ISBN: 0-471-59268-4

Microstrip Antennas, The Analysis and Design of Microstrip Antennas and Arrays
D. M. Pozar D. H. Schaubert
ISBN: 0-7803-1078-0

Contemporary Communication Systems using MATLAB
J. G. Proakis M. Salehi
ISBN: 0-534-37173-6

Simulation, Modeling and Analysis
A. M Law and W. D. Kelton
ISBN: 0-07-116537-1

Radio Receivers projects you can build
H. L. Davidson
ISBN:0-8306-4190-4

Last updated 16-03-08 by urban.bilstrup@hh.se