UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

ELEG 812
WIRELESS DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
SPRING 2005
TUESDAY 5:15 PM - 8:00 PM
COLBURN ROOM 104
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Leonard J. Cimini, Jr.
306 Evans Hall
Tel: 302-831-4943
Tel (weekends): 732-938-6674
Fax: 302-831-4316
E-mail: cimini@ece.udel.edu
STRUCTURE: Lectures
- notes will be made available (for a fee)
Homeworks - weekly, due 2 weeks after assigned
(25%)
- not accepted if late
Exams
- Exam #1 April 5
(25%)
- Exam #2 May 24
(25%)
Term paper - proposal March 8, paper May 17,
(25%)
talks May 24
- propose a new wireless application and provide
suggestions for each layer of design
Honor code
PREREQUISITES: Linear systems and elementary probability theory
REQUIRED TEXT: M. D. Yacoub, Foundations of Mobile Radio Engineering,
CRC Press, 1993

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

W. C. Jakes, Jr., Ed., Microwave Mobile Communications, Wiley, 1974.

W. C. Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1982.
W. C. Y. Lee, Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems, McGraw-Hill, 2nd Ed., 1995.
T. Rappaport, Wireless Communications, IEEE Press/Prentice-Hall, 1996.
G. L. Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, Kluwer, 1996.
G. Calhoun, Digital Cellular Radio, Artech, 1988.
G. Calhoun, Wireless Access and the Local Telephone Network, Artech, 1992.
J. F. DeRose, The Wireless Data Handbook, Quantum, 2nd Ed., 2000.
V. Garg and J. E.Wilkes, Wireless and Personal Communications Systems, Prentice-Hall, 1996.
J. Gibson, Ed., The Mobile Communications Handbook, IEEE/CRC Press, 1996.
A. Mehrotra, Cellular Radio: Analog and Digital Systems, Artech, 1994.
A. Mehrotra, Cellular Radio: Performance Engineering, Artech, 1994.
K. Pahlavan and A. Levesque, Wireless Information Networks, Wiley, 1995.
J. D. Parsons, The Mobile Radio Propagation Channel, Wiley, 1992.
T. Rappaport, Cellular Radio and Personal Communications, IEEE Press, 1995.
R. Steele, Ed., Mobile Radio Communications, Pentech, 1992.
Wireless Personal Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine, January 1995.
"The Evolution of TDMA to 3G," IEEE Pers. Communications Magazine, June 1999.
S. Benedetto, E. Biglieri, and V. Castellani, Digital Transmission Theory, Prentice-Hall, 1987.
J. A. C. Bingham, The Theory and Practice of Modem Design, Wiley, 1988.
G. C. Clark and J. Cain, Error-Correction Coding for Digital Communications, Plenum, 1981.
R. D. Gitlin, J. F. Hayes, and S. B. Weinstein, Data Communications Principles, Plenum, 1992.
J. S. Lee and L. E. Miller, CDMA Systems Engineering Handbook, Artech, 1998.
R. Prasad, CDMA for Wireless Personal Communications, Artech, 1996.
J. Proakis, Digital Communications, Wiley, 4th Ed., 2001.
M. Schwartz, W. R. Bennett, and S. Stein, Communications Systems and Techniques, McGrawHill, 1966.
B. Sklar, Digital Communications, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
R. van Nee and R. Prasad, OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications, Artech, 2000.
A. J. Viterbi, CDMA - Principles of Spread Spectrum Communications, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
A. S. Acampora, An Introduction to Broadband Communications, Plenum, 1994.
L. Kleinrock, Queueing Systems, Vol. 1: Theory, Wiley, 1975.
A. S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, Prentice-Hall, 3rd Ed., 1996.
A. Papoulis, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, McGraw-Hill, 1984.
S. O. Rice, Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise, BSTJ, July 1944, pp. 282-332, and
January 1945, pp. 46-156.

COURSE OUTLINE
WEEK

TOPIC

REFERENCE
CHAPTER

Survey of Wireless Systems/Technologies/Standards

1-2

The Cellular Concept

2-3

The Radio Channel

- Propagation Fundamentals
- Noise and Interference

4-5

Modulation
- Digital Techniques
- Performance in a Multipath Environment

5-7

Fading Countermeasures: Diversity, coding, equalization,

antennas arrays

Exam #1

Fading Countermeasures: Multicarrier, spread spectrum

10-11

Multiple Access Techniques

- FDMA, TDMA, CDMA
- Random Access Protocols

12-13

System/Network Concepts
- Traffic Theory (brief)
- Resource Management
- Mobility Management (handoff, locating, routing)

14

Exam #2/Project Talks

1
2
3, 4, 7

8, 9

5, 6, 7.8

10.5.1, 10.5.2
10, 11

12