ECE 695D - Multiple Antenna Wireless Communications

Course Details

Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3

Counts as:

Experimental Course Offered:

Fall, Spring, and/or Summer

Catalog Description:

Introduction to wireless communication systems using multiple antennas. Topics will include introduction to wireless communications, diversity analysis, multiple-antenna channel models, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capacity analysis, transmit and receive diversity, and space-time coding. Emphasis will be placed on signal design overview, efficient decoding, and performance comparison. Broadband communication systems will also be discussed. Students will learn how to analyze and compare various MIMO techniques mathematically.

Course Objectives:

Teach students fundamental objectives of multi-antenna wireless systems. Students will understand transmission and decoding techniques associated with wireless communications.

Required Text(s):

  1. Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications , E. G. Larsson and P. Stoica , Cambridge University Press , ISBN No. 0521824567

Recommended Text(s):

  1. Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unifed Approach to Performance Analysis , M.K. Simon and M.-S. Alouini , John Wiley , ISBN No. 0471317799
  2. Introduction to Space-time Wireless Communications , A. Paulraj, r. Nabar and D. Gore , Cambridge University , ISBN No. 0521826152
  3. Wireless Communications , T. S. Rappaport , Prentice Hall , ISBN No. 0130422320

Lecture Outline:

Lectures Topics
1 Course motivation and standards
2 Digital communications review
2 Wireless signal modeling
2 Intro to wireless fading
3 Diversity and fading analysis
2 Multiple antenna signal model
2 Multiple-antenna channel models
3 Receive diversity
3 Transmit diversity
2 Space-time block codes
2 Capacity analysis
4 Spatial multiplexing
2 Linear precoding
1 OFDM
1 Multiple antenna OFDM
4 Multi-user multiple antenna systems

Assessment Method:

Course outcomes will be measured in an exam and a course project. The course project will be used to acquaint students with recent research in wireless communications.