TLEN 5830 Wireless Systems
Instructor: Kevin
K. Gifford
E-mail: kevin.gifford@colorado.edu
Office: ECOT-313
Phone: 303.735.4536
Class Schedule: Tuesday/Thursday,
1400 - 1515, Lecture: DLC-1B20 | Lab activities will be in DLC-1B40 CyberWireless Lab
Office Hours: 0900
- 1000 Monday through Thursday
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course overviews the
distinctive characteristics of the wireless communications medium. Topics covered include: Analog signals,
Antennas and Propagation, Digital Signals, Sampling, Quadrature Signals,
Digital Modulation, Receiver Structures, SNR and SINR Concepts, Channel Models,
Channel Statistics, and Link Budgets.
The course includes an introduction to MIMO and beamforming as
implemented in modern communication systems along with associated applications
to information theory and ShannonŐs channel capacity theorem.
Software Defined Radio (SDR)
is introduced to facilitate student hands-on learning of radio operation,
signal processing fundamentals, and trouble shooting skills. These SDR skills enable wireless
projects in the Wireless Track curriculum beyond this course. This course will include labs to
introduce and utilize SDR and will include labs to introduce industry-leading
RF propagation modeling tools.
COURSE OBJECTIVE
Wireless Systems (TLEN 5830)
is the introduction to fundamentals course for the TCP Wireless Networking
curriculum. The primary objective
of this course is to prepare the student for a successful career in the
wireless industry. As the first
course in the ITP wireless track, the emphasis is on a broad set for
fundamental skills that are useful and necessary for active wireless work.
PREREQUISITES
Undergraduate engineering
degree in professional field; basic statistics background is assumed. Must have instructor consent if the
above two requirements are not met.
REFERENCES
Required: Wireless Communications Networks and Systems,
by William Stallings and Cory Beard, ISBN 0-13-359417-3, 2016 (1st
edition)
Antennas and Propagation for
Wireless Communication Systems,
by Simon R. Saunders and Alejandro Aragon-Zavala,
ISBN 978-0-470-84879-1; March 2007 (2nd edition).
Wireless Communications Principles and Practice, by Theodore S. Rappaport, ISBN 0-13-042232-0 (2nd
edition)
TLEN 5830 Course Organization
Week |
Lecture |
Primary
Topic |
Objective(s) |
Reading |
Lab |
Exercises |
1 |
1 (08/28/2018) |
Lecture-01: Course
Introduction |
- Course Introduction & website - Homework logistics (10% rule); in-class hand-in of assignments; laboratory hands-on exercises - Course Expectations - Course participants: self-introduction, background, wireless communications interests - Why wireless communication is different |
Saunders: Ch. 1 - The Wireless Communications Channel |
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1 |
2 (08/30/2018) |
Lecture-02: Signals
fundamentals |
- Wireless history review and future trends - The wireless environment (aka, the trouble with wireless) - The EM Spectrum - Signal Fundamentals - SNR: Signal-to-Noise Ratio - Transmission Media |
Saunders: Ch.2 - Properties of Electromagnetic Waves Stallings: Ch. 2 - Transmission Fundamentals |
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2 |
3 (09/04/2018) |
Lecture-03: Signal
Fundamentals |
- Decibels Review - Complete Signals Overview |
Saunders: Ch. 4 - Antenna Fundamentals Stallings: Ch. 5 - Antennas and Propagation |
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2 |
4 (09/06/2018) |
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3 |
5 (09/11/2018) |
Lecture-04: Antenna
fundamentals and RF Propagation |
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Antenna fundamentals -
RF propagation |
Saunders: Ch. 4 - Antenna Fundamentals Stallings: Ch. 5 - Antennas and Propagation |
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3 |
6 (09/12/2018) |
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Basic Propagation Mechanisms -
Free Space Loss -
Path Loss
Exponent -
Noise -
Start Multipath |
Saunders:
Ch. 5 - Basic Propagation Models Saunders: Ch.
10 Đ Narrowband Fast Fading |
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Lab-01 due |
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4 |
7 (09/18/2018) |
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Focus on
multipath -
Eb/N0 |
Stallings:
Ch. 6 - The Wireless Channel |
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HW-01 due |
4 |
8 (09/20/2018) |
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Lab-02:
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5 |
9 (09/25/2018) |
Lecture-07: Signal Encoding
Techniques |
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Signal modulation / encoding |
Stallings:
Ch. 7 - Signal Encoding Techniques, Sec. 7.1, Sec 7.2 Stallings:
Ch. 9 - Spread Spectrum |
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5 |
10 (09/27/2018) |
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Signal
modulation / encoding -
FHSS -
DSSS, CDMA and OFDM -
Orthogonality |
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Lab-02 due |
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6 |
11 (10/02/2018) |
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Coding and
Error Control |
Stallings: Ch. 10 - Coding & Error Control |
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6 |
12 (10/04/2018) |
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HW-02 due |
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7 |
13 (10/09/2018) |
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MIMO: Spatial
Diversity and Spatial Multiplexing |
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7 |
14 (10/11/2018) |
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Multiplexing
fundamentals -
OFDM |
Stallings: Ch. 8 - OFDM |
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Lab-03 due |
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8 |
15 (10/16/2018) |
Lecture-12: Intro to Software Defined Radio
(SDR) |
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Introduction to
Software Defined Radio (SDR) |
Hardware
Radio / Software Radio graphic |
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8 |
16 (10/18/2018) |
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HW-03 due |
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9 |
17 (10/23/2018) |
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Overview
of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN architecture and family of standards |
Stallings: Ch. 11 - Wireless LAN Technology |
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9 |
18 (10/25/2018) |
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Overview
of 3GPP LTE architecture (Part 1) |
Stallings: Ch. 14 - 4th Generation Systems and LTE-Advanced |
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Lab-04 due |
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10 |
19 (10/30/2018) |
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Overview
of 3GPP LTE architecture (Part 2) |
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10 |
20 (11/01/2018) |
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HW-04 due |
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11 |
21 (11/06/2018) |
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Overview
of 3GPP LTE architecture (Part 3) |
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11 |
22 (11/08/2018) |
Lecture-17: Data Standard Body Organizations |
- SBOs including IEEE,
ITU, ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, CCSDS, OSI, NIST |
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Lab-05 due |
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12 |
23 (11/13/2018) |
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12 |
24 (11/15/2018) |
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HW-05 due |
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(11/20/2018) |
Thanksgiving Break - No Class |
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(11/22/2018) |
Thanksgiving Break - No Class |
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13 |
25 (11/27/2018) |
- Overview of modern
satellite communications (Part 1) |
Stallings: Ch. 16 - Long Range Communications |
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Lab-06 due |
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13 |
26 (11/29/2018) |
- Overview of modern
satellite communications (Part 2) |
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14 |
27 (12/04/2018) |
- Overview of modern
satellite communications (Part 3) |
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14 |
28 (12/06/2018) |
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Lab-07:
- (SDR) Tx/Rx - SatCom CCSDS SLS - MIMO Lab |
HW-06 due |
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15 |
29 (12/11/2018) |
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15 |
30 (12/13/2018) |
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Lab-07 due |
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16 |
(12/17/2018) Final Exam Period: 1630-1900 |
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Final
Project due |