EEL 6509 Wireless Communications
Dr. John M. Shea
- Announcements
- Here is the solution for last year's exam.
- Here is last year's final exam
in PDF format. Use the same password as for the class notes. I expect that I will not have a problem that
is as complicated as the last problem on this test. I will probably
try to break the problem up more, although I think this is a great
example of a real-life type of communications problem.
I also
may ask questions about the standards covered in class, including
basic questions about GSM, USDC, and IS-95.
- The final exam will be on Wednesday, May 2 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
in NEB 201.
- Projects are due on 4/25 by 5:00 PM for regular students. Projects
should be received by 5/9 for FEEDS students.
- Handouts
- Homework
- Homework 1, due January 31, 2001.
- Homework 2, due February 9, 2001.
- Problems - available in HTML
and PDF formats.
- Solutions in PDF format. Note
that I have given the solution to the two-ray model as an approximation
here. I will provide an exact solution later.
- Homework 3, due February 21, 2001.
- Homework 4, due March 2, 2001.
- Problems - 2.7, 2.8, 2.5 in textbook.
- Solutions in PDF format.
- Homework 5, due Monday, April 2, 2001.
- Homework 6, due Monday, April 23, 2001.
- Lecture Notes
- A Brief History of Wireless Communications
- Notes on electrodynamics for Lecture 5, Friday, January 19, 2001. Also available in PDF.
- Propagation models, Wednesday, January 31, 2001. Also available in PDF.
- Cellular communication, Friday, February 15, 2001.
- Channel allocation and handoff schemes, Monday, February 19, 2001.
- Receiver design and noise figure, notes for Monday, February 19 and Tuesday, February 21.
- Some notes on bandwidth and line
coding, notes to accompany lecture for Monday, February 26.
- Diagrams of pulse shapes
to accompany lecture for Wednesday, February 28.
- PSK Modulation
notes to accompany lectures for Friday, March 2 and Monday, March 12.
- More on PSK Modulation and
Amplitude Modulation
, notes to accompany lecture for Monday, March 12.
- Block codes lecture in HTML and
PDF for Wednesday,
April 4. If you use the HTML version, you will also need to
refer to
these figures from Sklar's book on Digital Communications. Also,
the table of Galois field elements is missing and will be added later.
- Convolutional codes lecture
in PDF.
- Advanced coding lectures:
trellis codes, interleaving, and turbo codes. Note that any figures
that appear to be missing were covered on the board in class.
- Lecture on fading in PDF format.
- Lecture on military communications,
including spread spectrum and distributed routing in PDF format. The
order of the slides is different than what I used in class, but the
slides are the same.
- Material on second generation
cellular systems in PDF format.
- Miscellaneous Reference Material
- Other Useful Links