http://www.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~utureli/EE615/home.html

COORDINATOR: Dr. Uf Tureli, utureli@stevens.edu, tel: 201-216 5603

MEETINGS: Thursdays 3:30-6pm, Burchard 430

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesdays 5-6pm, Wednesdays 3-4pm at Burchard 202 other times by appointment. You may use e-mail to request appointments.

TEXT: (Primary textbook is available online for free)

(Primary) OFDM Wireless LANs: A Theoretical and Practical Guide, John Terry, Juha Heiskala, December, 2001. ISBN: 0672321572

Note that you do not need to purchase the book, since it is freely available to Stevens students on the web using the library's subscription to Safari textbooks. Click on the link above and select "Table of Contents".

(Recommended) Multicarrier Techniques for 4G Mobile Communications, Shinksuke Hara and Ramjee Prasad, 2003, Artec House, ISBN: 1-58053-482-1

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Multi-carrier communications (MCM) has been chosen as the physical layer of important communication technologies, including the three important and diverse applications in WiFi, WiMax, ADSL. Therefore, it has great relevance to practicing and graduating wireless and wired communications and networking engineers. The goal of this course is to learn MCM, synchronization, channel estimation, diversity and coding exploiting the structure of MCM. The course will start with a review of digital communications, introduce multicarrier communications, including latest technology, eg. OFDM-CDMA and space time/frequency coded OFDM systems, as well as systems in development such as Ultra Wideband and WiMAX.

ASSESSMENT / GRADING:

Project	(computer programming, brief in-class presentation and formal report)	20%
Homework	(analytical problems 10 % and computer programming 10% )	20%
Exams	Midterms (2)	20%
	Final	20%

Assignments and project: Computer programming will include simulation in school provided Matlab using routines in textbook.