EC 4910: Digital Signal Processing for Wireless Communications (3-2)

EC4910-Syllabus.pdf

POC:  Roberto Cristi, Professor, Code EC/Cx, tel 2223, rcristi@nps.edu

Prerequisites. EC3410 or EC3500

Reference Text (optional):

R. Van Nee and R. Prasad, OFDM for Wireless Multimedia Communications, Artech House,  2000, ISBN 0-89006-530-6 

Course Description

1. Digital Communications fundamentals

2. Multirate Digital Signal Processing: upsampling, downsampling operations on signals;

3. Efficient Implementation of Multirate Systems: multistage implementation and polyphase decomposition;

4. Transmultiplexers;

5. Wireless Channels: the Wide Sense Stationary Uncorrelated Scattering (WSSUS) Model, Time Coherence, Frequency Coherence;

6. Multi Carrier Modulation and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM): principles;

7. OFDM applications to IEEE 801.11a/g and IEEE 802.16 standards;

8. Time and Frequency Synchronization in OFDM Systems;

9. MIMO OFDM.

Requirements:

• 7 Computer Projects in Simulink and Matlab