8/19/2019 EE209AS_S16

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Instructor: Danijela Cabric

Time: Tue/Thu 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Course Description

This course presents a top-down approach to wireless communications system design. It focuses on emerging

and state-of-the-art wireless radio technologies (cognitive, UWB, 60GHz, and 5G radios). The course will cover

algorithms, architectures and implementation for radio transceivers, physical and network layer functionalities.

Topics

Wireless Communications System Design

Fundamentals

  Channel modeling

  Single-carrier and Multi-carrier systems

  Multiple antenna systems

Transceiver Architectures

  Impact of RF impairments

  Correction of RF impairments

Novel radio and systems architectures:  Cognitive Radios

  Ultra-wideband Radios

  mmWave (60 GHz) Radios

  5G systems

Physical/MAC Layer Functions:

  Spectrum Sensing

  Wideband Signaling

  Interference suppression

 

MIMO and beamforming

Grading

2 Homeworks (40%)

1 project (Matlab/Simulink) + term paper (60%) If you have any questions please email:

danijela ee ucla edu  

Spring 2016 

EE209AS: Special Topics in

Wireless Communications System Design