TLEN 5830 Advanced Wireless Lab                                             Check-out list

 

Instructor:        Kevin K. Gifford

E-mail:             kevin.gifford@colorado.edu

Office:             ECOT-313

Phone:             303.735.4536

Class Website:  http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~gifford/5830-AWL/syllabus.html

 

Class Schedule:          

 

Lecture:           Tuesday           0930 - 1045     ECOT-313

Laboratory:     Thursday         0930 - 1045     DLC-1B20      Additional Lab Time is expected

 

Office Hours:   0900 - 1000     Monday, Wednesday

 

Lab Assistants:           

 

Sai Pavan naidu Pedda Venkatappagari, sape0988@colorado.edu

Vijaykrishnan Sarangarajan, visa7450@colorado.edu

Siddhartha Subray, sisu7691@colorado.edu

 

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The Interdisciplinary Telecom Program (ITP) at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a focused strategy to supplement theoretical digital communications concepts with hands-on laboratory exercises utilizing software defined radio (SDR).  In conjunction with lecture-based content to provide a solid foundation in digital communication theory, SDR-based laboratory exercises simultaneously enable the synthesis of several fundamental concepts utilizing the latest, modern, communications systems technologies. 

 

This course is intended to provide a comprehensive, hands-on, set of laboratory exercises for the teaching and demonstration of key technical skills required to understand, build, test, and analyze both analog and digital wireless communications concepts.  State-of-the-art technology and facilities are employed to introduce students to practical issues encountered in modern wireless communications systems

 

COURSE OBJECTIVE

Advanced Wireless Lab (TLEN 5830-AWL) topics and labs include several topics in analog modulation and in digital signaling methods, and advanced investigation of modern wireless communications topics of LTE, WLANs, OFDM, MIMO and spectrum monitoring. 

 

PREREQUISITES

Second-year student enrolled in the ITP Program and pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in the Wireless Networking Track.  Must have instructor consent if the stated two requirements are not met.

 

OPTIONAL REFERENCES

ˆ Wireless Communications Networks and Systems, by William Stallings and Cory Beard, ISBN 0-13-359417-3, 2016 (1st edition)

Wireless Communications Principles and Practice, by Theodore S. Rappaport, ISBN 0-13-042232-0 (2nd edition)

 

TLEN 5830-AWL Advanced Wireless Lab Course Organization

 

Session

#

Date

Primary Topic

Objective(s)

Pre-lab

Lab

Session

Lab

Date

Out

Assignments

Due Date

1

1/17

Lecture-01: Course Introduction

 

-- Course Introduction

Pre-Lab-01

 

Lab Manual

 

 

HW-01

 

 

2

 

1/19

 

 

 

 

1

 

1/19

Lab-01

 

Intro to LabView

 

 

 

 

 

¥         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

1/24

 

 

Lecture-02: AM, FDM, DSBSC 

 

-- Analog Modulation

-- Frequency Division

-- Multiplexing

-- Double Side-Band Suppressed Carrier

 

Stalling & Beard: Ch. 7.3

 

 

 

Pre-Lab-02

 

 

 

 

 

HW-02

 

 

HW-01 due

Pre-Lab-01 due

Lab-01 due

4

1/26

 

 

 

2

1/26

Lab-02: AM, FM, DSBSC

 

 

 

 

¥         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

1/31

 

Lecture-03: Signal Impairments

 

 

-- Eye Diagram

 

 

 

Pre-Lab-03

 

-- Rx VI

-- Tx VI

-- Eye diagram basics

 

 

 

 

 

 

HW-03

 

 

 

HW-02 due

Pre-Lab-02 due

Lab-02 due

6

2/2

 

 

 

3

2/2

Lab-03: Eye Diagram

 

 

 

 

¥         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7

 

 

2/7

 

 

Lecture-04: Digital Signaling

 

-- Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)

-- Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)

-- Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK)

-- Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK)

 

Stalling & Beard: Ch. 7.2

 

 

 

Pre-Lab-04

 

 

 

 

HW-04

 

 

HW-03 due

Pre-Lab-03 due

Lab-03 due

8

2/9

 

 

 

4

2/9

Lab-04

 

 

 

 

¥         

 

 

 

 

 

9

2/14

Lecture-05: OFDM

 

Stalling & Beard: Ch. 8

 

Pre-Lab-05

 

 

HW-05

HW-04 due

Pre-Lab-04 due

Lab-04 due

10

2/16

 

 

 

5

2/16

Lab-05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

2/21

Lecture-06: LTE

 

LTE-in-a-Nutshell

 

 

-- LTE broad overview

-- LTE Resource Grid

 

Pre-Lab-06

 

 

HW-05 due

12

2/23

 

 

 

6

2/23

Lab-06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

2/28

Lecture-07: LTE Architecture (Part 1)

 

-- LTE architecture

-- LTE RAN and EPC

 

Pre-Lab-07

 

 

Lab-05 due

14

3/2

 

 

 

7

3/2

Lab-07

Lab-06 due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15

3/7

Lecture-08: LTE Architecture (Part 2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

16

3/9

 

 

 

8

3/9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

17

3/14

Lecture-09: LTE Sidelink (SL), ProSe, DTD (Part 1)

 

 

 

 

 

HW-08

Lab-08

Lab-07 due

18

3/16

 

 

 

9

3/16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

3/21

Lecture-10: LTE Sidelink (SL), ProSe, DTD (Part 2) 

 

 

 

 

 

HW-09

Lab-09

HW-08 due

Lab-08 due

20

3/23

 

 

 

10

3/23

 

 

 

 

Spring Break

Spring Break

 

 

 

 

 

21

4/4

Lecture-11: (In-class discussion, no lecture slides)

 

 

 

 

 

Lab-10

HW-09 due

Lab-09 due

22

4/6

 

 

 

11

4/6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

23

4/11

Lecture-12: SDR Radio Overview (T. Charles Clancy, 2007)

 

 

 

 

 

Lab-11

 

Lab-10 due

24

4/13

 

 

 

12

4/13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25

4/18

Lecture-13:

 

Lab-12 Resources:

 

N9344C Demo Guide

 

 

 

 

Lab-12

 

Lab-11 due

26

4/20

 

 

 

13

4/20

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27

4/25

Lecture-14:

 

LTE Network Architecture (Whitepaper by Alcatel-Lucent)

 

 

 

 

28

4/27

 

 

 

14

4/27

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29

5/2

Lecture-15:

 

Netspan-Install-File

 

 

 

Lab-13

 

Lab-12 due

30

5/4

 

 

 

15

5/4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31

5/10

 

 

 

 

 

Lab-13 due Wednesday, 1600 10-May-2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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