EE 506 PMP
Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
Dated March 7, 2012
(Spring 2012)
Professor:
JA Ritcey, EE454, Phone: 206-543-4702, Email:jar7@uw.edu
Prof Office Hours:
Wednesdays before and after class or by appointment
TA Office Hours:
One weekend Day time by mutual agreement or by appointment
Textbook:
A. Goldsmith, “Wireless Communications”, Cambridge University,
2005
Prerequisites:
EE505 is required, EE 518 is recommended. An undergrad understanding of signals and systems in discrete and continuous time.
Course Syllabus: (approximate times are based on 3 hrs/week of lecture) Chapters are from the
Goldsmith textbook. Notes will be posted on the course website.
Overview of modern wireless systems (chap1)
Signals and systems -deterministic and stochastic (3hrs) (appendices & notes)
Wireless Fading Channels (2hrs)(chap 2 selected)
Information Theory and capacity (1hr) (chap 4 brief overview)
Digital Modulation and Detection (6hrs) (chap 5)
Performance modeling in noise and fading (3hrs) (chap6 and chap7)
Midterm Exam (a practice test will be available)
Channel Coding (chap 8 and notes) (6hrs)
Adaptive Modulation (chap 9) (3hrs)
Multi-carrier communications and Special Topics (3hrs)
Final Exam (3 hours on Wed June 6)
Grade Policy: 7 Weekly Homework assignments 35%, Midterm 25%, Final 40%.
TA: Xiang Zou, Email:, Office hour: TBD
Homework (HW): HW is typically assigned in-class weekly and will be due in 1 week from the day
assigned, at the start of class. Delayed HW submissions may be allowed only with prior consent
of the instructor, and submitted before HW solutions are posted. Some HW problems require
MATLAB. Get familiar with it.
Exams: Midterm exam is around the 5th or 6th week of the quarter. It will be in-class. Final
exam is scheduled on the final’s week of the quarter.
Class homepage: Please link from the EE Class homepages
http://www.ee.washington.edu/class/index.html
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