EECE 563 : Wireless Communication Systems
Ed Casas.
You can contact me by e-mail (edc@ece.ubc.ca) or at my office in
MCLD 451 (822-2592) (preferably during office hours).
TBD.
Lectures are currently scheduled for Fridays, from 3:30 to 6:30
PM in MacLeod (MCLD, Electrical Engineering) room 402.
Assignment will be given out approximately once a week and will
be due one week later. Solutions will be given out for all
questions but some or all questions may not be marked. Late
assignments will be given a mark of zero. Assignments should
be handed in at the beginning of the lecture.
Assignments are to be done individually. Students are encouraged
to seek help from classmates but copying is not allowed.
Possible penalties for plagiarism include a mark of zero for all
assignments.
Hong Nie (hongn@ece.ubc.ca,
MCLD 319) will mark the assignments.
The course Web page (http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~edc/563)
will be used to make announcements and to distribute course
material. You can also use the Web page to check your marks.
Any browser can be used read these pages.
The lecture notes, assignments and solutions will be available
from the Web page in PDF format. Free software to view and print
PDF documents (Ghostview, Adobe Acrobat) is available for most
computers.
Mailing List
The lecturer will post important announcements about the course
on the eece563-announce mailing list. All students in
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Students should post questions or answers about the course
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Instructions on subscribing are available
on the course Web page.
The mailing lists can also be accessed through the EECE 563-announce and eece563 archives.
The text for the course will be:
- Theodore S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications :
Principles and Practice, Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN:
ISBN 0-13-375536-3.
The bookstore should have 7 copies of the book available at the
start of the term and more within two weeks. You can also
purchase this book on-line (e.g. from
www.chapters.ca for $102).
A copy of the textbook will be put on reserve at the Main Library
as soon as it is returned. It can then be taken out for a
maximum loan period of 1 day.
The following is another useful (but somewhat dated) reference
for the material covered in this course:
- William C. Jakes, Donald C. Cox (Editors), Microwave
Mobile Communications, IEEE Press. ISBN: 0780310691.
There will be a one-hour mid-term examination in February and a
3-hour final exam in April. The final mark will be calculated as
follows:
final exam 50%
midterm exam 30%
assignments 20%
Graduate students in EECE who would like to learn about
principles behind wireless communications systems.
Student should have taken undergraduate courses in probability
and communications.
- Introduction to Wireless Communications.
- Cellular System Design Fundamentals.
- Propagation Path Loss.
- Fading and Multipath Propagation.
- Modulation Techniques for Wireless Communications.
- Diversity, Coding, and Equalization.
- Speech Coding for Wireless Communications.
- Multiple Access.
- Wireless Networking.
- Wireless Standards.
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