Rutgers University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Personal Communication Systems (332:426)
World Wide Web Homepage

M & Th, 12:00-1:20 in SEC 204

INSTRUCTOR:

Christopher Rose can be reached at crose@winlab.rutgers.edu . All course business will be transacted over the web and email. If for some reason email is insufficient to answer a question, we can set up an appointment to meet. Please reserve this method for only the most intractable conceptual problems. There is a course mailing list (moderated) as well: ece_426_s06@rams.rutgers.edu. You can post questions/comments there for public consumption. You can also email me directly and I'll repost your question/comment (with identifying info removed by default).  

TEXT: 

Wireless Communications by Andrea Goldsmith. We will follow this text closely
and laud and/or frag Andrea accordingly.  However, I will almost certainly hopscotch a little
around the book as opposed to plowing through the chapters sequentially.

Pre-requisites:

332:421 (Communications Engineering)
332:322 (Principles of Communications Systems)
332:321 (Probability Theory)
  

TOPICS:

Starting from first principles, we  seek to understand the why and how of wireless communications
systems.  What is wireless communications? What is it (can it) be used for?  What medium?
How is the medium shared?   What about privacy?  How is information routed? How are users located?
What modulation methods are effective and why? Where does the WWW fit in?  Through a combination
of systems examples and rigorous mathematical analysis, this course offers the opportunity to understand
what wireless communications is all about.  In the process you will also hone your analytic skills.
You will also be asked to prepare material for presentation during a portion of each class, somewhat
like a seminar.  Your slides will be placed on this web page. There will also be in-class brainstorming sessions
from which final project ideas will come.    The final project is IMPORTANT (see weighting below).

WARNING:
UNLIKE previous years where this class was essentially a free-wheeling and fun design course, this
term's version will be MUCH DRIER lecture, problem set, exam course.  If you obtained lower than a B in the
pre-reqs, you're going to have a LOTS of trouble with this class -- it relies HEAVILY on communications
theory and probability theory.  You don't want to put me in the position of standing between you and graduation.

GRADING:

For the final project,  group members will  grade each other and I will take these grades under
consideration in assigning a final grade.  The project is the most important aspect of this course.

PROBLEM SETS:
problem set 1     (problem set 1 solution)
problem set 2    (problem set 2 solution)
Takehome Exam
problem set 3
problem set 4
problem set 5

EXAMS:

TBA


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