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Lectures:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:30 - 9:00 pm, ME4276
Corequisites:
94.553 Stochastic Processes and 94.554 Principles of Digital
Communications (or other equivalent graduate-level courses)
A sound understanding of the theory of digital communications is an
absolute requirement.
The students who do not have the required background (dictated
by the Graduate Calendar), and still registered for the course without the
instructor's consent,
may be asked to drop the course any time during the term.
Obtaining a passing mark may be quite difficult for such students due to
the analytical nature of the course.
Text Book:
Theodore S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice,
Prentice Hall, 1996 (reprinted with corrections, July 1999), ISBN: 0-13-375536-3
(should be available in the campus bookstore)
Course notes (Prof. Elvino Sousa, U of Toronto, and myself)
References:
Kaveh Pahlavan and Allen H. Levesque, Wireless Information Networks,
John Wiley, 1995, ISBN: 0-471-10607-0
John G. Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw-Hill, 3rd ed., 1995,
ISBN: 0-07-051726-6
Course Outline:
Cellular Concept [Ch.s 1 & 2 and course notes]
Fundamentals of Radio Propagation (Large-Scale Effects) [Ch. 3 and course
notes]
Fading Channels (Small-Scale Effects) [Ch. 4 and course notes]
CDMA (and other Multiple Access Techniques) [Ch.s 5 & 8 and course notes]
Equalization, Channel Coding, and Diversity [Ch. 6 and course notes]
Radio Resource Management and Antenna Architectures [course notes]
Marking Scheme:
Assignments: 20% (corrected assignments may not be
returned until the end of the term)
