Wireless Communications

ELEC 6141-CC, Summer 2018

1- General Information

1.1- Lecture Schedule

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14:45 to 17:30 in room H553.

Extra review lectures: Saturday July 21 and Tuesday Aug. 14 both from 14:45 to 17:30.

For the course project, Computer laboratories H843 and H847 H854 and H849 are available for students of this course every day from 8AM upto 11PM during June 27 and August 13.

Ms. Maryam Miri or Ms. Sareh Majidi will be available in room H843 H854 during July 4 and August 22 on Mondays from 14:00 to 16:00 and Wednesday from 10:00 to 12:00. You may consult these individuals on MATLAB and the simulation project of the course.

1.2- Instructor

Instructor: Yousef R. Shayan, Office Location: Room EV 5.161

Tel.: (514) 848-2424 ext. 3076, Email: yousef.shayan@concordia.ca

Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 13:00-14:00 (no appointment is required)

1.3- Course Web Site 

http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~yshayan/teaching

Username: “ELEC6141”, Password: “ID#”

2- Course Content and Objectives

2.1- Objectives

In this course, you will learn wireless communication systems and become familiar with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation cellular communication systems. At the end of the course, you will be able to (partially) design wireless communication systems. 

2.2- Calendar Course Description

ELEC 6141 Wireless Communications (4 credits)

Topics include wireless radio link analysis; receiver sensitivity and receiver noise sources; path loss, shadowing, and fading models; area coverage and range calculation; introduction to cellular systems: frequency reuse, trunking and grade of service, sectoring and cell splitting, coverage and capacity. Modulation techniques for mobile communications, spread-spectrum techniques; multiplexing and multiple access techniques; wireless standards from first generation to fourth generation; OFDM: an architecture for the fourth generation. A project is required.

2.3- Required Knowledge for this Course

The pre-requisite for this course is ELEC6831 entitled, “Digital Communications.” Very good knowledge in Digital Communications, Probability Theory and MATLAB is required.

3- Course Material

3.1- Text Books

Following text books will be used as reference:

Bruce A. Black et al, Introduction to Wireless Systems, Prentice Hall, 2008.

Bernard Sklar, Digital Communications, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 2001.

Gordon L. Stüber, Principles of Mobile Communication, 4th Ed., Springer, 2017.

You may also use following books as reference:

Theodore S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 2002.

Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

3.2- Other Course Material

Other required course material will be posted on the course Web Site.

4- Assessments

4.1- Assignments (10 marks)

There will be number of assignments which are to be answered and delivered to the instructor.

4.2- Project (15 marks)

The project involves simulation of a communication system using MATLAB. This is a group project (3 students per group). The project has two parts and each part requires a typed report. The Project Description and Guidelines of the project will be posted on the course web site. 

4.3- Midterm Exam (25 marks)

A closed book exam will be held which is related to the material covered up to the midterm date. The midterm exam will be held on Tuesday July 24 from 14:45 to 17:45 in room H553.

If you do not write the midterm exam without any legitimate reason, the grade of your midterm exam will be zero. If a student has legitimate reason not attending the midterm exam, he/she should immediately inform the instructor (either before or immediately after the exam). If you do not write the midterm exam but you have a legitimate reason, the final exam will be worth 75 marks.

4.4- Final Exam (50 marks)

A closed book exam will be held from whole the course material. The final exam will be held on Thursday August 16 from 15:00 to 18:00 in room MB 3.210.

5- Grading Scheme

There is one grading scheme based on Assignments (10%), Project (15%), Midterm Exam (25%) and Final Exam (50%). The letter grade will be given based on the percentage grade.

A-, A, A+: Student has tried hard and knows the course material very well.

B-, B, B+: Student has tried hard and knows the course material well.

C: Student has tried but has marginal knowledge of the course material.

F: Student has not tried enough and does not know the course material.

F-ABS: Student has been absent in the final exam.

6- Rights and Responsibilities

6.1- Academic Code of Conduct

All Concordia University students must abide by the “Academic Code of Conduct” which can be found in Concordia University Graduate Calendar.

6.2- Expectations of Originality

Please note that you have to submit a signed copy of “expectations of originality form” to the mailbox of the instructor before submission of the first homework.

You must write one of the following statements on the title page of each piece of work that you submit:

For individual work: “I certify that this submission is my original work and meets the Faculty's Expectations of Originality”, with your signature, I.D. #, and the date.

For group work: “We certify that this submission is the original work of members of the group and meets the Faculty's Expectations of Originality”, with the signatures and I.D. numbers of all the team members and the date.