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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

2

4

(09/06/2018)

 

 

HSA Demo Guide

 

Band Analysis Example

Lab-01: Spectrum Analyzer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

5

(09/11/2018)

Lecture-04: Antenna fundamentals and RF Propagation

 

-   Antenna fundamentals

-   RF propagation

 

Saunders: Ch. 4 - Antenna Fundamentals

 

Stallings: Ch. 5 - Antennas and Propagation

 

 

HW-01

3

6

(09/12/2018)

Lecture-05: Path Loss

 

 

-   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

 

 

 

Lab-01 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

7

(09/18/2018)

Lecture-06: Multipath

 

-   Focus on multipath

-   Eb/N0

Stallings: Ch. 6 - The Wireless Channel

 

HW-01 due

4

8

(09/20/2018)

 

 

EDX Clutter Whitepaper

 

EDX Reference Manual

 

Lab-02 Pre-Lab Reading

Lab-02:

RF Propagation Modeling with EDX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

9

(09/25/2018)

Lecture-07: Signal Encoding Techniques

 

-   Signal modulation / encoding

 

Stallings: Ch. 7 - Signal Encoding Techniques, Sec. 7.1, Sec 7.2

 

Stallings: Ch. 9 - Spread Spectrum

 

 

5

10

(09/27/2018)

Lecture-08: Signal Encoding & Spread Spectrum

-   Signal modulation / encoding

-   FHSS

-   DSSS, CDMA and OFDM

-   Orthogonality

 

 

HW-02

 

Lab-02 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

11

(10/02/2018)

Lecture-09: Coding & Error Control

-   Coding and Error Control

 

Stallings: Ch. 10 - Coding & Error Control

 

Coding and Error Control notes

 

 

6

12

(10/04/2018)

 

 

 

Lab-03: RF propagation modeling with MatLab

 

HW-02 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

13

(10/09/2018)

Lecture-10: MIMO

-   MIMO: Spatial Diversity and Spatial Multiplexing

 

 

 

 

 

7

14

(10/11/2018)

Lecture-11: Multiplexing & OFDM

-   Multiplexing fundamentals

-   OFDM

Stallings: Ch. 8 - OFDM

 

HW-03

 

Lab-03 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

15

(10/16/2018)

Lecture-12: Intro to Software Defined Radio (SDR)

 

-   Introduction to Software Defined Radio (SDR)

Hardware Radio / Software Radio graphic

 

Radio Front End Processing graphic

 

 

8

16

(10/18/2018)

 

 

 

Lab-04:

FM Receiver (MatLab)

 

rtlsdr_book_library

HW-03 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9

17

(10/23/2018)

Lecture-13: IEEE WLAN architecture

-   Overview of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN architecture and family of standards

 

Stallings: Ch. 11 - Wireless LAN Technology

 

 

 

9

18

(10/25/2018)

Lecture-14: 3GPP LTE architecture

-   Overview of 3GPP LTE architecture (Part 1)

Stallings: Ch. 14 - 4th  Generation Systems and LTE-Advanced

 

 

HW-04

 

Lab-04 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10

19

(10/30/2018)

Lecture-15: 3GPP LTE architecture

-   Overview of 3GPP LTE architecture (Part 2)

 

 

 

 

 

10

20

(11/01/2018)

 

 

 

Lab-05: Digital signaling: ASK, FSK, QPSK (Gnu Radio)

HW-04 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

21

(11/06/2018)

Lecture-16: 3GPP LTE architecture

-   Overview of 3GPP LTE architecture (Part 3)

 

 

 

 

 

11

22

(11/08/2018)

Lecture-17: Data Standard Body Organizations

-   SBOs including IEEE, ITU, ETSI, IETF, 3GPP, CCSDS, OSI, NIST

 

 

 

HW-05

 

Lab-05 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

23

(11/13/2018)

 

 

 

 

Lab-06: OFDM

(Gnu Radio & MatLab)

 

12

24

(11/15/2018)

 

 

 

HW-05 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(11/20/2018)

Thanksgiving Break - No Class

 

 

 

 

 

(11/22/2018)

Thanksgiving Break - No Class

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

25

(11/27/2018)

Lecture-18: Satellite Communications-1

-   Overview of modern satellite communications (Part 1)

 

Stallings: Ch. 16 - Long Range Communications

 

Lab-06 due

13

26

(11/29/2018)

Lecture-19: Satellite Communications-2

-   Overview of modern satellite communications (Part 2)

 

 

 

HW-06

 

Final Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

27

(12/04/2018)

Lecture-20: Satellite Communications-3

-   Overview of modern satellite communications (Part 3)

 

 

 

 

14

28

(12/06/2018)

 

 

 

Lab-07:

- (SDR) Tx/Rx

- SatCom CCSDS SLS

- MIMO Lab

 

HW-06 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

29

(12/11/2018)

 

 

 

 

 

15

30

(12/13/2018)

 

 

 

 

Lab-07 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

(12/17/2018) Final Exam Period: 1630-1900

 

Final Project

 

 

 

Final Project due