Lecture Notes
ECE6604: Personal & Mobile Communications

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Spring 2009

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Lecture notes posted below are from the previous course offering and are subject to change.   Lecture notes for the current offering will usually be posted ONE day before the scheduled class and possibly updated after the scheduled class.

No. Date Topic Reading Assigned Due
1 Tue 1/6 Introduction to Wireless Communications Ch. 1    
2 Thu 1/8 Path Loss, Co-channel Interference, Link Budget Ch. 1    
3 Tue 1/13 Interference and Shadow Margins, Handoff Gain, Coverage Ch. 1    
4 Thu 1/15 Capacity, Flat Fading 2.1   Hmwk#1  
5 Tue 1/20 Envelope Distribution 2.1.2    
6 Thu 1/22 Envelope Correlation 2.1.1    
7 Tue 1/27 Space-time Correlation 2.1.5 Hmwk#2   Hmwk#1
8 Thu 1/29 Level Crossing Rate, Average Fade Duration, Zero Crossing Rate 2.1.4    
9 Tue
2/3		 Statistical Channel Modeling, COST207 Models 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.4    
10 Thu 2/5 Mobile-to-Mobile and MIMO Channels      
11 Tue
2/10		 Fading Simulators 2.3.1, 2.3.2    
12 Thu
2/12		 Fading Simulators 2.3.4 Hmwk#3   Hmwk#2
13 Tue 2/17 Path Loss Models 2.5    
14 Thu 2/19 Quiz Solutions and Grade Distribution     Hmwk#3
15 Tue 2/24 Shadowing, Cochannel Interference, and Outage 2.4, 2.4.1, 3.1    
16 Thu 2/26 Single Carrier Modulation Techniques 4.1-4.4  Hmwk#4  
17 Tue 3/3 CPM and Orthogonal Multipulse 4.5, 4.7,4.8    
18 Thu
3/5		 CPM and Orthogonal Multipulse (con'td) 4.5, 4.7, 4.8    
19 Tue 3/10 Power Spectrum of Digitally Modulated Signals 4.9  Hmwk#5   Hmwk#4
20 Thu 3/12 Introduction to OFDM 4.6, 4.9.6    
       SPRING BREAK        
21 Tue 3/24 Detection and Error Probability on Flat Fading Channels 5.1-5.5 Hmwk#6    Hmwk#5
22 Thu 3/26 Diversity Techniques 6.1-6.3, 6.7    
23 Tue 3/31 Optimum Combining      
24 Thu 4/2 OFDM Impairments - AWGN, timing offset, Doppler Russell & Stuber Hmwk#7R Hmwk#6
25 Tue 4/7 OFDM Impairments - Frequency Offset, ISI Kim & Stuber    
26 Thu 4/9 OFDM Impairments - Sample Clock Offset, PAPR      
27 Tue 4/14 OFDM Decision-Aided Reconstruction, Residual ISI Cancellation Kim & Stuber  Hmwk#8   Hmwk#7
28 Thu 4/16 MIMO OFDM      Project
29 Tue 4/21 Summary     Hmwk#8
30 Thu 4/23 No Class      
31 4/27 Final Exam:  8:00am-10:50am, Arch Bldg Rm 207 Old Exams

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