EE 710 Selected Topics in Multicarrier Communications   

Fall  2001

COURSE WEB PAGE: 

http://koala.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~utureli/EE710/home.html 

SCHEDULE : Tuesday  06:15 PM-08:45 PM   Burchard 213

COORDINATOR: Dr. Uf Tureli, utureli@stevens-tech.edu
PHONE: 201-216 5603
OFFICE HOURS: (Tentative) Tuesdays 5-6pm, Wednesdays 3-4pm at  Burchard 202 other times by appointment.  You may use e-mail to request appointments.

 

LINKS:

1)     Wireless LAN Standards and Applications; Asunción Santamaría, Francisco López-Hernández, Editors  Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1999. Click here to see a sample chapter of this title.

 

 

TEXT:  [1] Multi-Carrier Digital Communications - Theory and Applications of OFDM, Ahmad R. S. Bahai, Burton R. Saltzberg,  Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1999. Contents

 

Other Recommended Reading: 

[2] OFDM Wireless Multimedia Communications, Ramjee Prasad, Richard D. Van Nee, Richard Van Nee, Artech House, 2000.

[3]  ADSL, VDSL, and Multicarrier Modulation,  John A. C. Bingham, Wiley, 2000. Table of Contents  

PREREQUISITES:  EE 609, Communication Theory I (Could be taken at the same time)  

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  This course will  review multicarrier modulation (MCM) methods which offer several advantages over conventional single carrier systems for broadband data transmission. 

Topics include fundamentals of MCM, where the data stream is divided into several parallel bit streams, each of which has a much lower bit rate, to exploit multipath diversity and the practical applications. It will cover new advances as well as the present core technology.

   

 

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, s/he should be able to:

1.     Understand and implement MCM techniques.

2.     Design and implement synchronization methods.

3.     Design linear and decision-feedback equalizers.

4.     Evaluate and compare the performance of the preceding techniques.

Topical Outline:    

5.     Review of digital modulation, baseband and passband signaling

6.     MCM modulation, demodulation, detection, probability of error

7.     Synchronization, Equalization

8.     Wireless LANs,DSL systems,Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting

 

Assignments and projects:  Hands on learning with computer based learning approaches will include simulation in MATLAB or instructor provided state of the art high level software  packages  to design and implement  modulation, filtering, synchronization and demodulation.

 

See http://fisher.ece.stevens-tech.edu/~nrimawi/ for possible project topics.

ASSESSMENT / GRADING:

 

Project

(computer programming, brief in-class presentation and formal report)

40%

 

Homework

(analytical problems 20 % and computer programming 20%)

40%

 

Exams

 

 

 

 

Final 

20%

  

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