E2 203 : Wireless Communication

January 2011

Formerly Advanced Digital Communications (Jan 2007 and earlier)

Instructors

Rajesh Sundaresan and Neelesh B. Mehta

Lecture Hours

Lecture hours: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Homework discussions and occasional labs: Saturdays 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location

ECE 1.08

Teaching Assistants

Chandramani Singh
Salil Kashyap

Course syllabus

The wireless channel; diversity; multiple-access and interference management; capacity of wireless channels; opportunistic communication and multiuser diversity; MIMO: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling; capacity and architectures; MIMO with multiple users.

Course Grading

20/100 Homeworks (fortnightly)
30/100 Mid-term (1.5 hours), Thursday 24 February 2011, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
50/100 Final (3 hours), Friday 29 April 2011, 9:00 AM - 12:00 noon

Homeworks and lab sessions

Problem Set 1 (Due: 4:00 PM, 18 February 2011)
Lab Session 1 (Demonstration due: 26 February 2011)
Problem Set 2 (Due: 1:00 PM, 01 March 2011)
Lab Session 2 (Demonstration due: 26 March 2011)
Problem Set 3 (Due: 1:00 PM, 29 March 2011)
Problem Set 4 (Due: 1:00 PM, 12 April 2011)
Lab Session 3 (Demonstration due: 16 April 2011)
Problem Set 5 (Need not be turned in).

Reference Texts

David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2005, South Asian Edition, 2006.