National University of Sciences and Technology School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Mobile Communications (3+0)

Course Code: CSE- 444 Instructor: Syed Ali Hassan Email: ali.hassan@seecs.nust.edu.pk Website: http://seecs.nust.edu.pk/faculty/drhassan.html Office Hours: 02:00 03:00 pm Tuesday or by appointment. Pre-requisites: Course Description:

Semester: Fall 2012 Office: A-310

Extension: 2125 Class: BEE-1

Probability and Statistics, Analog and Digital Communications This course is intended to provide a thorough, up-to-date, treatment of wireless physical communication systems. To this end, the course will start with an introduction to wireless communications. This introduction will be followed by in-depth discussions on the challenges, constraints, and modeling of radio propagation and wireless channels. The emphasis on fundamental issues should benefit not only to students taking formal instruction, but also practicing engineers who are likely to already have a detailed familiarity with the standards and are seeking to deepen their knowledge of the fundamentals and principles of this important field.
Textbook(s): T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall. Reference Book(s): Principles of Mobile Communications, 3nd Edition. By: Gordon L. Stuber. Publisher: Kluwer publishers.

Books:

Course Syllabus

(tentative)

1. Overview of Wireless Communication Systems (2L) 2. Cellular Systems (5L) Reuse Factor, Cell Sectoring, Trunking Theory, Hand-offs 3. Review of Probability and Random Variables (2L)

4. Multipath-fading, channel modeling, and simulation (10L) Fading Characteristics, Fading distributions, Fade Envelops, Average Fade Duration, Coherence Bandwidth 5. Path loss (2L) 6. Shadowing (2L) 7. Multiple-Access Techniques (3L) TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDMA, SC-FDMA 8. Single- and multi-carrier modulation techniques and their power spectrum. (10L) QPSK, BPSK, FSK, MSK, GMSK, OFDM, Modulation Spectra, 9. Advanced Topics: Multi-Antenna Schemes, MIMO, MIMO ST Coding (5L), Diversity Combining Techniques (5L) 10. Emerging Trends in Wireless and Mobile Communications (2L)

Grading Policy

20% OHT-1 20% OHT-2 35% Final Exam 10% Assignments 10% Quizzes 5% Project

Plagiarism Policy:

Collaboration and group wok is encouraged but each student is required to submit his/her own contribution(s). Your writings must be your own thoughts. Cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated and will be referred to the Dean for appropriate action(s).
Assignments: An assignment will be given after completion of each major topic. Late assignments will not be accepted / graded. All assignments will count towards the total. OHTs Grading Policy: Relative marking, standard deviation based on the class average. Quiz policy: Quizzes will be announced or unannounced. Missed quizzes cannot be retaken. All quizzes will count towards the total.

Quiz and Assignments Policy

Project:

Project will be assigned based on research papers and should be approved by the instructor before hand.

Additional Details:

The course website will be the primary source for announcements and submitting assignments: http://lms.seecs.edu.pk/

Weekly Breakdown

Week
1

Lecture
Introduction to Mobile and Wireless Communications History and overview of standards/generations

2 3 4 5 6 7

Cellular Systems: Frequency Reuse, Trunking Theory, Cell Sectoring Cellular Systems: Interference, power control, hand offs Review of Probability Theory, Random variables, PDF, CDF Wireless Channel Impairments: Path-loss and Shadowing OHT-1 Wireless Channel Impairments: Multipath fading, fading characteristics, fading distributions Multipath Fading: Fading envelops, correlations, coherence time and coherence bandwidth, average fade durations Multiple Access Techniques for 2G (TDMA)/FDMA), 3G (CDMA) and 4G (OFDMA/SC-FDMA) Modulation: Introduction to digital modulations, single vs. multi-carrier modulations, Nyquist pulses, geometry of signals Modulation: Linear and non-linear modulation techniques and their power spectras OHT-2 Advanced topics in Wireless and Mobile Communications: Multi-Antenna Systems, MIMO techniques, MIMO space-time coding, diversity combining Modern Trends in Mobile and Wireless Communications Project Demo, Project Presentations, Revision Final Exam Week

10

11

12 13

14 15 16