EE 433 Lessons - Fall 2013

 

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Date

Rappaport

Section

Molisch

Section

Topic(s)

Comment(s)

 

 

 

 

Week 1

 

1

 Aug 19 --

--

Course introduction and review of Modulation and Multiple Access

  

2

 Aug 21

9.1 - 9.3,

9.4

17.1-17.3, 18.2

TDMA / FDMA / CDMA

pngen.m

xor2.m

DSSS_Demo.m
3-4 Aug 22

Appendix B;

Agilent Article*

6.1-6.3

 3.1-3.2

Gain, dB, and Noise in detail

Gain, dB, and Noise Exercises

 Handout:  Gain/dB Quick Reference

Agilent Article on Blackboard

* Pages 1-11 Only
5 Aug 23

9.1 - 9.3,

9.4

17.1-17.3, 18.2

 Fundamentals of CDMA  
     

 

Week 2

  
6 Aug 26

1 - 1.6;

RCA Article

 1-1.4

History of the US Cellular System.

PPT Slides (not on Blackboard)

RCA Article on Blackboard
7 Aug 28 3.1 - 3.2 17.5-17.6 Cell planning, frequency reuse hexCell.m
- Aug 29     Comp Time Dr. Anderson at GaTech
- Aug 30     Comp Time Dr. Anderson at GaTech
     

 

Week 3

  
  Sept 2  

 

Labor Day - Tuesday is a Monday Schedule

 
8 Sept. 3 3.3 - 3.5 17.5-17.6 Interference, System Capacity and Handoffs

Rappaport: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.15, and 1.16

Molisch:  Ch. 1: #3, #5

Molisch:  Ch. 3: #1

9 Sept 4 3.5 -- Trunking and grade of service (1/2) - Voice

ErlangPlot.m

Erlang.zip

simulate_erlang_b.m
lab Sept 5     Major Wireless Standards Exercise  
10 Sept 6 3.6 -- Trunking and grade of service - (2/2) - Data  
     

 

Week 4

  
11 Sept 9 3.5-3.6 -- Trunking and grade of service - Examples  
12 Sept 11 3.5-3.6 -- Trunking and grade of service - Examples  
lab Sept 12     Trunking Simulation Exercise  
13 Sept 13 3.5-3.6 -- Trunking and grade of service - Examples

Powerpoint Slides

Rappaport: 1.9, 3.4, 3.22(a,b,c,e), and 3.23

Hint:  For Problem 3.22, use Table 1.1
   

 

 

Week 5

 
14 Sept 16 3.7 - 3.8 17.6 Coverage and capacity in cellular systems Powerpoint Slides
15 Sept 18 4.1   Introduction to radio wave propagation, and free space propagation

 

 
16 Sept 19     Cellular Application #1:  GSM  
-- Sept 20 4.3 - 4.4 4.1 Relating power to electric field, the three basic propagation mechanisms.

Rappaport:  3.10, 3.11, 3.15.

Molisch:  Ch. 17 #1, #2***
     

 

Week 6

  
-- Sept 23     Comp Time Dr. Anderson at WVU
17 Sept 25 4.5 - 4.6 4.2 Reflection and the Two-Ray Model twoRayModel.m
lab Sept 26     Free Space Propagation Exercise findpathloss.m
18 Sept 27     EXAM #1
  
     

 

Week 7

  
19 Sept 30 4.8 - 4.9 4.4 Scattering and the Log-Normal Model  
20 Oct 2 4.7 4.3 Diffraction (Knife Edge)  
lab Oct 3     Log-Distance Propagation Exercise  
21 Oct 4 4.8 - 4.9 3.2 System Design - Planning, Propagation, and Link Budget

Rappaport: 4.1, 4.2, 4.4 (use antenna gain = 10 dB), 4.19, 4.20, 4.23

(4.23 - skip Hata Model, use Matlab for plots)

     

 

Week 8

  
22 Oct 7        
- Oct 9 4.11 - 4.13 7.1-7.5 Indoor propagation models, building penetration, ray tracing and site specific modeling  
T Oct 10     Commercial AM/FM Transmitter Tour  
- Oct 11 4.11 - 4.13 7.1-7.5 Indoor propagation models, building penetration, ray tracing and site specific modeling

Rappaport: 4.29 (use Matlab),

Molisch:  Ch. 3 #2, #4

Molisch:  Ch. 4 #3a-b??
     

 

Week 9

  
  Oct 14     No Class Monday  
23 Oct 16

5.1 - 5.2

5.4 - 5.5

6.1-6.4

6.4 - 6.5

 Introduction to Small-Scale Fading  
T Oct 17

5.1 - 5.2

5.4 - 5.5

6.1-6.4

6.4 - 6.5

 Introduction to Small-Scale Fading
Time-Based Fading

 
24 Oct 18 5.4-5.5

6.1-6.4

6.4 - 6.5

 Introduction to Small-Scale Fading
Doppler-Based Fading		 Project Proposals Due  
     

 

Week 10

  
25 Oct 21     Exam #2 Review  
26 Oct 23     EXAM #2  
T Oct 24     Cell Tower and MTSO Tour  
27 Oct 25

5.1 - 5.2

5.4 - 5.5

6.1-6.4

6.4 - 6.5

 Parameters of Multipath Channels (Part 1)

 
     

 

Week 11

  
28 Oct 28

5.1 - 5.2

5.4 - 5.5

6.1-6.4

6.4 - 6.5

 Parameters of Multipath Channels (Part 2)

 
29 Oct 30 5.6   Rayleigh Fading & Channel Statistics  
lab Oct 31     Fading Exercise

 
30 Nov 1 5.6   Ricean Fading & Channel Statistics Rappaport: 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.28a-d, 5.30

 

Week 12
31 Nov 4 5.7   System Performance in Fading Channels

 
32 Nov 6 7.10 13.1, 13.2 Introduction to Receiver Diversity Techniques
Antenna Diversity & Performance

 
-- Nov 7     Project Time  
33 Nov 8 7.10

13.2, 13.4,

13.5

 Time Diversity
Rake Receiver & Performance		  
     

 

Week 13

 
  Nov 11  

 

Veterans Day

 
  Nov 13     Conclusion of Diversity Rappaport 5.1, 5.9, 5.15, 5.29
  Nov 14    

Project Time

  
  Nov 15  

 

EXAM #3

  
     

 

Week 14

  
  Nov 18  

 

 Project Time  
  Nov 20  

 

 Project Time

 
  Nov 21     Project Time  
  Nov 22     Project Time  
     

 

Week 15

  
  Nov 25  

 

 Project Time  
  Nov 27  

 

 Project Time Project Status Report Due
  Nov 28  

 

Thanksgiving Break

  
  Nov 29  

 

Thanksgiving Break

  
     

 

Week 16

  
  Dec 2  

 

 Project Time  
  Dec 4  

 

 Project Time

 
  Dec 5  

 

 Last Day of Classes

Project Report Rough Drafts Workshop
         

Project Written Report Due 17:00
           
  Dec 6    

Reading Day

Project reports returned with comments to be addressed during presentations 17:00

Final Report Format

 

Example Report 1

Example Report 2
       

 

  
       

Final Exam Presentations

Presentation Instructions

Presentation Evaluation Sheet