Course website of Mobile Communications

Mobile Communications

Last Update: June, 19, 2008

Description:: This course provides systematic introduction about fundamental mobile communication systems/networks/architecture. Focusing technologies in this year will be fundamentals of cellular communications, OFDM-based wireless broadband communications (wireless local area networks, wireless personal area networks, and mobile WiMAX), and technology toward 4G wireless. The course suitable for 1^st or 2^nd year graduate students and senior undergraduate students will be presented in English in different aspects: conceptual orientation, theoretical framework and analysis, and system design.

Prerequisite:: Probability, Principles of Communications, Digital Communications or equivalent (preferred), Introduction to Computer Networks (preferred).
Outline:: 1.    Fundamentals of Mobile Communications
        1.1. Basic Digital Communication Theory
        1.2. Mobile Communication Engineering
        1.3. Digital Cellular Systems
                1.3.1.            GSM, GPRS, and EDGE
                1.3.2.            Spread Spectrum, CDMA, and Multiuser Communications
                1.3.3.            IS-95
                1.3.4.            WCDMA and HSPA
                1.3.5.            3GPP2*
                1.3.6.            TD-SCDMA*
        1.4. IEEE 802 Systems
                1.4.1.            IEEE 802.11
                1.4.2.            IEEE 802.15 and Bluetooth
                1.4.3.            IEEE 802.16
        1.5. Network Security

2.    Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA)
        2.1. Principles of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
        2.2. OFDM Systems
                2.2.1.            Receiver Design
                2.2.2.            IEEE 802.11a/g
                2.2.3.            MB-OFDM, WiMedia, and Bluetooth 3.0
        2.3. MIMO OFDM
                2.3.1.            Beamforming
                2.3.2.            Spatial Multiplexing
                2.3.3.            Space-Time Codes
                2.3.4.            MIMO OFDM
                2.3.5.            IEEE 802.11n
        2.4. OFDMA
        2.5. MIMO OFDMA
        2.6. Mobile WiMAX
        2.7. Broadband Cellular
                2.7.1.            IEEE 802.16m
                2.7.2.            IMT-Advance
                2.7.3.            3G LTE and UMB

3.    Technology toward 4G Wireless
        3.1. Cooperative Communications
        3.2. Cognitive Radio Networks
                3.2.1.            Software Radio and Re-configurable Networks
                3.2.2.            Spectrum Sensing
                3.2.3.            Dynamic Spectrum Access
                3.2.4.            Network Layer Structure
                3.2.5.            Trust and Security

* may not be included if time is not allowed.

Textbook: Class Handouts & Slides

! Term-Project Proposal Schedule

Slides: Synopsis: 1.1 Basic Digital Communications
1.2 Mobile Comm Engineering
1.3.1 GSM
1.3.2 Spread Spectrum Communications
1.3.3 IS-95 CDMA Cellular
2.1.3 OFDM
Reference for Frequency Estimation
2.2.1 Reference for MIMO capacity
Reference for MIMO OFDM
2.3.4 Introduction to NGMN

Reading Assignment:: (1) AFC tracking
(2) Bit Tracking Loop
(3) Carrier Phase Estimation
(4) CSMA Part I
(5) CSMA Part II
(6) CSMA Part III
(7) CSMA Part IV
(8) MAC of WLAN
Primary References:: [1] Gordon Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, 1996.
[2] Ramjee Prasad, Universal Wireless Personal Communications, 1998.
[3] Yoshihiko Akaiwa, Digital Mobile Communications, 1997.
[4] Theodore Rappaport, Wireless Communications, 1996.
[5] William Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, 1998.
[6] J. Groe, L. Larson, CDMA Mobile Radio Design, 2000.
[7] J. Terry, J. Heiskala, OFDM Wireless LANs, 2002.
[8] A. Richardson, WCDMA Design Handbook, Cambridge, 2005.
[9] K.C. Chen, R. DeMarca, Ed., Mobile WiMAX, Wiley-IEEE, 2008.
[10] International standards
Grades:: Term-Paper Proposal (TBA)
Final Examination 50% (TBA)
Term-Paper & Presentation 50% (TBA)

Term-Paper:: Each term-paper can be prepared by 1-2 persons. Those term-paper team with more than one person and the selected proposals will be allocated 15-20 minutes for oral presentation on a selected date. A one-page proposal must due in the middle of semester. Final version of term paper shall follow the paper format as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. It must be originally written by students. The term-paper can be

(1) Summary of your reading papers/books/standards
(2) Simulation of existing paper(s)
(3) Hardware and software experiment(s)
(4) Other with an approved proposal

The scope of term paper can be any subject related to mobile communications in this course.