EL 501   Wireless Personal Communications Systems

Syllabus

Week Date Contents
01 09/01 Elements and functions of wireless systems
02 09/08 No Class
03 09/15 Radio signal propagation and mitigation techniques
04 09/22 Radio signal propagation and mitigation techniques
05 09/29 No Class
06 10/06 Interference limited communications, channel allocation
07 10/10 Multiple access techniques
08 10/20 Mid-term exam
09 10/27 GSM Cellular System
10 11/03 Advanced GSM system: GPRS and EDGE
11 11/10 Power control, mobility management
12 11/17 Second Generation CDMA Cellular System, IS-95
13 11/23 Third Generation CDMA Cellular Systems, CDMA2000, WCDMA
14 12/01 Access and scheduling
15 12/08 Wireless Local Area Networks and Personal Area Networks


Textbook:
Mischa Schwartz “Mobile Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University Press, 2005 ISBN: 0 521 84647 2

Class Schedule: Thursday 3:35 - 5:50 PM

Instructor: Prof. David Goodman
Office: LC 251
E-mail: dgoodman@poly.edu
Tel: 718-260-3221
Office Hours: TBA

Teaching Assistant: Jun Niu (njun01@utopia.poly.edu)

Homework, exams, grades:
Homework will be assigned every week, collected one week later.
Students are encouraged to work together on the homework – submit one set of answers with everyone’s name.
There will an in-class midterm exam and a final exam.
You can bring 3 pages of notes (cheat sheets) to each exam.
To determine the course grade, the final exam will count 2/3; mid-term 1/3.
Homework and class participation will decide borderline grades.