EE 433 Lessons - Fall 2008

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Date

Section

Reading

Topic(s)

Comment(s)

 

 

 

 

Week 1

 
0       No Class Monday

 
0       No Class Tuesday

 
1
20 Aug

 

 

Course introduction and definitions

  
lab 21 Aug     Overview of Lab Equipment and Resources  
2
22 Aug

Appendix B;

Agilent Article*

611-614;

1-11

 Gain, dB, and Noise

Agilent Article on Blackboard

* Pages 1-11 Only
        Week 2  
3 25 Aug

1 - 1.6;

RCA Article

1 - 21

Evolution of major wireless standards in the US and abroad.

 RCA Article on Blackboard
4

27 Aug

3 - 3.4

57 - 67

Cell planning, frequency reuse, channel assignment strategies, and handoffs.

hexCell.m
lab 28 Aug    

Project Time 0

 
5

29 Aug

   

Homework #1 discussion - Chapter 1

hw 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.9, 1.15, and 1.16
        Week 3  
 

1 Sept

     No Class Monday

 

6

3 Sept

3.5

67-77

 Interference and System Capacity  
lab

4 Sept

 

 

 Project Time - 1 & 2  
7
5 Sept
     GSM Analyzer Demonstration Hospital Point

Final project selection

Project Proposals Due
        Week 4  
8 8 Sept

3.6

77 - 86

Trunking and grade of service (1/2) -Voice

 

9

 10 Sept 3.6 77-86 Trunking and grade of service - (2/2) - Data

ErlangPlot.m

Erlang.zip

lab

11 Sept

     Project Time - 3 & 4  
10 12 Sept

3.7 - 3.8

86 - 96

Improving coverage and capacity in cellular systems

  

 

 

 

 

Week 5

 
11

15 Sept

4 - 4.2

105 - 110

Introduction to radio wave propagation, and free space propagation

  
12 17 Sept    

Homework #2 discussion - chapter 3

hw 3.4, 3.10, 3.11, 3.15,   3.22(a,b,c,e), and 3.23.  Problem 3.29 is Extra Credit

 

Hint:  For Problem 3.22, use Table 1.1

lab

18 Sept

     Project Time - 5 & 6  
13 19 Sept     Exam #1 Review or catch-up day  
        Week 6  

14

 22 Sept     EXAM #1  
15 24 Sept

4.3 - 4.5

110 - 120

Relating power to electric field, the three basic propagation mechanisms, and reflection

  
lab 25 Sept     Project Time - 7 & 8  
17 26 Sept

4.6 - 4.7

120 - 135

Ground reflection model and diffraction

twoRayModel.m
        Week 7  
18 29 Sept

4.8 - 4.9

135 - 144

Scattering and link budgets

6-Week Project Milestones
19 1 Oct

4.10

145 - 157

Outdoor propagation models

 hataModel.m
lab 2 Oct     Project Time - 9 & 10  
20 3 Oct    

Homework #3 discussion - Chapter 4 Part 1

 hw 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.14, and 4.21, 4.23
        Week 8  

21

6 Oct

4.11 - 4.13

157 - 167

Indoor propagation models, building penetration, ray tracing and site specific modeling (part 1)

  

22

 8 Oct

4.11 - 4.13

157 - 167

Indoor propagation models, building penetration, ray tracing and site specific modeling (part 2)

  

lab

 9 Oct

Project Time - 11  & 12
  

23

 14 Oct

5 - 5.2

177 - 191

 Small-scale multipath propagation and impulse response of a multipath channel (part 1) Project Status Report 1 Due
        Week 9  
 

13 Oct

     No Class Monday

 
24 15 Oct

5.2 - 5.3

181 - 197

 Impulse response of a multipath channel and multipath measurements (part 2)   
lab 16 Oct     Project Time - 13 & 14  

25

17 Oct

5.7

214 - 229

Statistical modeling for multipath fading channels

  
        Week 10  
26 20 Oct     Homework #4 discussion - Chapter 4 Part 2, Chapter 5 hw 4.29a-c, 4.31, 5.1, 5.7a-c, 5.15, 5.28
27 22 Oct 6 - 6.3   Review of AM and FM, Amplitude Shift Keying

selected sections only
lab 23 Oct     Project Time - 15 & 16  
28

24 Oct

 6.4, 6.7  

Overview of Digital Modulation,

Geometric Representation of Digital Signals

  
        Week 11  
29 27 Oct     Project Time - 17 Dr. Anderson
30 29 Oct     Project Time - 18 at SDR Forum

lab

30 Oct

     Project Time - 19 & 20

SDR Forum Trip?
31

31 Oct

     Guest Speaker / Project Time  
        Week 12  
32 3 Nov 6.8   Phase Shift Keying Modulation selected sections only

12-Week Project Milestones

33

5 Nov

 6.9, 6.10  

Frequency Shift Keying Modulation

Quadrature Amplitude Shift Keying

 selected sections only

 
lab 6 Nov     Project Time - 21 & 22  
34 7 Nov 6.11  

Introduction to Spread Spectrum

DSSS, FHSS, OFDM

pngen.m

xor2.m

DSSS_Demo.m
        Week 13  
35 10 Nov Supplemental  

OFDM - MIMO (Jody's Wireless Standards)

  
 

11 Nov

     Veterans Day

 
36 12 Nov Supplemental  

Wireless Standards I (Jody's Material)

  

lab

13 Nov

     Project Time - 22 & 23  
37 14 Nov Supplemental   Wireless Standards II (Jody's Material)  
        Week 14  
36 17 Nov     Homework #5 Discussion - Chapter 6 hw 6.2, 6.13, 6.20, 6.22

DigiComms simulation of BPSK, FSK, and QAM. Similar to 6.11
37 19 Nov     Exam #2 Review  
lab 20 Nov     Project Time - 24 & 25  
38 21 Nov     EXAM #2  
        Week 15  
39

24 Nov

     Project Time - 26  
40 26 Nov    

Project Meetings

Project Time - 27

 Project Status Report 2 Due
  27 Nov     Thanksgiving Break

 
  28 Nov     Thanksgiving Break

 
        Week 16  
41 1 Dec     Project Time - 29  
42 3 Dec     Project Time - 30  
lab 4 Dec     Project Time - 31 & 32  
43 5 Dec     Project Time - 33  
        Week 17  
45 8 Dec     Project Time - 34  
  9 Dec     Project Written Report Due 17:00  
           
        Final Exam

Project Presentations