The design project has significant flexibility and you have the entire semester.  However, you should start work early in the semester. Typical projects usually involve two components:

• Literature review. Try to include recent literature references.
• Software simulation. The simulation tools and platform is your choice.

ECE4601 is a course in physical communications and your project topics should be chosen appropriately.    Topics in communications networking are covered in other courses.  If you have any questions concerning the suitability of your topic, please ask before starting your project.

You are strongly encouraged to focus your project, making it narrower and deeper rather than broader and shallower. Try to be more quantitative and analytical rather than qualitative and descriptive.

You are required to prepare and submit a final report by Wednesday November 30, 2011.   Projects can be submitted early, but there will be no extensions and late projects will not be accepted.

Your final report should include a title page, abstract, introduction, main body, conclusions and references, and may include appendices. The report must use 12pt type and not exceed a total of 20 pages (individual) 25 pages (pairs), 26 lines per page, plus a maximum of 12 figures and tables.

Plagiarism:   It is essential that you properly reference your sources for your text, figures and tables.  Cases of plagiarism, such as unreferenced verbatim copying or paraphrasing from ANY source, will be referred to the Dean of Students for investigation and penalties.  

• Land Mobile Radio Channel Modeling
• Adaptive Modulation and Coding Techniques
• Turbo Coding and Iterative Decoding
• Space-time Coding and Diversity Techniques
• Spread Spectrum Techniques
• Cellular Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
• Cognitive Radio
• Adaptive Equalization  (time or frequency domain equalization)
• Interference Cancellation Techniques
• Spatial Division Multiple Access
• Multicarrier Modulation (e.g., OFDM and/or MC-CDMA)
• CDMA Multiuser Detection
• Receiver Time/frequency Synchronization
• Radiolocation Techniques
• Green Communications
• Cooperative Communications
• Digital video broadcasting
• A Topic of Your Own (with approval)

You will need a good list of journal and conference publications for your project.  Most of the following publications are available on-line through IEEE Explore which also has an excellent search capability.   Also, see the library at www.library.gatech.edu

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
• IEEE Communications Letters
• Proceedings of the IEE
• IEE Electronics Letters
• Kluwer Journal on Wireless Personal Communications
• ACM/Baltzer Journal on Wireless Networks
• Plenum International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
• IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC)
• IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc. (ICASSP)
• Nordic Seminar on Digital Mobile Radio Communications