EE359 - Wireless Communications - Fall 2010

Lectures

* Lecture 1: Overview of Wireless Systems
* Lecture 2: Signal Propagation, Path Loss Models and Shadowing
* Lecture 3: Shadowing, Combined Path Loss and Shadowing, Cell Coverage Area and Statistical Multipath Fading Models.
* Lecture 4: Statistical Fading Models.
* Lecture 5: Statistical Fading Models: Narrowband Fading
* Lecture 6: Statistical Fading Models: Narrowband and Wideband Fading
* Lecture 7: Capacity of Fading Channels

* Lecture 8: Capacity of Frequency Selective Fading Channels, Digital Modulation and Performance over AWGN and Fading Channels
* Lecture 9: Digital Modulation: Performance over Fading Channels
* Lecture 10: BER Floors and Diversity Systems
* Lecture 11: Diversity Systems
* Lecture 12: Adaptive Modulation
* Lecture 13: Adaptive Modulation and Introduction to MIMO
* Lecture 14: MIMO Systems
* Lecture 15: MIMO Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff, MIMO Receiver Design
* Lecture 16: Sphere Decoders, MIMO Design Issues, Multicarrier Modulation and OFDM
* Lecture 17: Multicarrier Modulation - OFDM
* Lecture 18: OFDM Implementation and Design of Spread Spectrum Systems
* Lecture 19: DSSS Interference and ISI Rejection, Spreading Codes, Synchronization, RAKE Receivers, Multiuser DSSS
* Bonus Lecture: Course Summary and Advanced Topics