ECE 614 - Fall 2017

ECE 614 - Communications over Fading Dispersive Channels

Instructor

Weihua Zhuang, EIT 4159, x35354, wzhuang@uwaterloo.ca

Lectures

Wednesdays 2:30pm - 5:20pm in room EIT 3151

Course Website

Course information is posted on the course website.

Course Outline

  • Overview – mobile communication systems, cellular concept and frequency reuse, user mobility.
  • Linear time-varying channel descriptions – complex signal representation, schematic representation of bandpass filtering operations, system functions and channel correlation functions, channel parameters, flat fading and frequency-selective fading.
  • Classification of channels and channel models – long-term and short-term fading, Rayleigh and Rician fading, power spectral of diffusive signals, basic radio transmission theory, path loss, shadowing.
  • Digital transmission over fading dispersive channels – diversity representation of fading channels, optimum receiver, maximum-likelihood detection, transmission performance over fading channels.
  • Diversity – diversity schemes, linear combining strategies, optimum combining, SNR improvement, distribution of SNR for independent and correlated diversity channels, transmission accuracy improvement by diversity.
  • Multiple access interference – cochannel interference and adjacent channel interference, multiple lognormal interferers, multiple Rayleigh/Rician interferers, distribution of interference, outage probability.
  • Code-Division Multiple Access – spread spectrum modulation and multiple access schemes, modulation and demodulation in multipath and multiple access interference, capacity analysis.

Prerequisites

ECE 316, and ECE 318 or equivalent (subject to the approval of instructor)

Lecture Notes

Will be available at DC copy center.

Reference Books

(reserved at the DC library)

  1. R. S. Kennedy, Fading Dispersive Communication Channels, Wiley-Interscience, 1969. (TK5101.K4)
  2. A.J. Viterbi, CDMA – Principle of Spread Spectrum Communication, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. (TK5103.45.V57 1995)
  3. J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2000. (TK5103.7. P76 2000)
  4. G.L. Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, 2nd ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. (TK6570.M6 S78 2001)
  5. W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1997 (TK6570.M6L44 1997)
  6. M. Schwartz,W.R. Bennett, and S. Stein, Communication Systems and Techniques, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. (TK5101.S298)

Grading

Project=35% and Final Exam=65%.

Not writing an exam will result in a grade of zero; 10% deduction per day for late project report submission.