Fundamentals of Wireless Broadband Networks

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Fundamentals of Wireless Broadband Networks

• ECSE-6961-01 WIRELESS BROADBAND NETS LEC 3
  T F 1000 1120AM Kalyanaraman
• CRN number 72701
• Course lecture room JEC 4107
• Pre-requisite ECSE 4670 Computer Communications
  Networks (CCN), or equivalent.
• This course will cover the fundamental concepts
  in wireless broadband communications and networks
  from a systems perspective. It will be suitable
  both for networking students with a computer
  science/computer engineering background and
  communication/signal processing students.
• The course begins with an in-depth introduction
  to wireless channels (path loss, shadowing,
  fading, statistical/empirical models). Topics
  covered then include a information-theoretic
  capacity of wireless channels, digital modulation
  and detection, diversity techniques (adaptive
  modulation and coding, multiple-antennas (MIMO
  and space-time communications), multi-carrier
  modulation/OFDM and spread spectrum/CDMA). The
  course then covers multiuser wireless systems,
  modern MAC layer design (FDMA/TDMA/CDMA/OFDMA/SDMA
  /CSMA), and mobility/handoff issues. The course
  will also overview how these concepts are
  realized in real-world wireless standards such as
  IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n (WiFi), 802.16e (WiMax),
  2G/2.5G/3G cellular wireless networks. The course
  ends with an introduction to cutting edge
  research topics in cross-layer design of
  multi-hop wireless systems.
• Primary Textbook Wireless Communications, Andrea
  Goldsmith
• Recommended Book Fundamentals of Wireless
  Communications, David Tse, Promod Viswanath