Rutgers University

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Spectrum Management and Wireless Systems (332:559)
Index number: 35582
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TH 1:00-4:00 WINLAB Small Conference Room

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 the course newsgroup, or 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. Signup here for mailing list/newsgroup. You can access the mailing list at ece559@winlab.rutgers.edu You can access the ARCHIVE of the mailing list here

CONTENT:

Unlike guided wave methods, wireless systems must overcome a variety of impairments, not the least of which is mutual interference between users. We seek to develop an understanding of the quantitative technical and economic issues of spectrum management -- which should prove useful as increasing numbers of unlicensed, high data rate wireless systems explode into the marketplace. A PRELIMINARY sequential topical grouping follows (I'm sure there are things I've missed)

OVERVIEW (9/4-9/18)

Class schedule and overview of intent.
Brief history of licensing: technical limitations and "The Tragedy of the Commons"

FCC

Spectrum Inventory --- 137 MHz to 10 GHz
Spectrum Inventory --- 137 MHz to 10 GHz
SPECTRUM USE SUMMARY 137 MHz - 10 GHz
Office of Engineering and Technology
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Home Page
FCC SITE MAP
FCC-WTB Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Home Page
Allocations & Standards Division
Spectrum Utilization and Economics Branch
National Telecommunications and Information Administration Home Page



Spark Gap Info

SPARK GAP TRANSMITTER (1)
http://www.vistech.net/users/w1fji/spark.html
Spark Transmitter

Tragedy of Commons

Science -- Hardin 162 (3859): 1243

Dick Frenkiel's Cellular Talk

TECHNICAL BACKGROUND MATERIAL (9/25 &10/2)

Digital Comm Theory review: Matched Filters, MMSE Filters
Karhounen Loeve Expansions and Signal Space


INTERFERENCE AT A SINGLE RECEIVER (10/9 & 10/23)

MMSE Interference Avoidance
Eigen-algorithm for Interference Avoidance
Convergence Issues
Dispersive Channels
IA and Power Control
Multiple Bases I
Multiple Bases II
See interference avoidance section of instructor home page for more information

CLASS CANCELLED 10/16:  (visit from Michigan State U. and Cornell Economists)  come to meeting at 1pm if possible.  Take home exam OUT.  DUE: 10/30


Problem Description
Simple Interference Avoidance: method and distributed algorithm structural properties of fixed points etc. (this is a LARGER hunk)
Information Theory Review/Overview: sum capacity and distributed interference avoidance
Fading/MIMO/Asynchronous Generalizations
Geographically Dispersed Receivers (without forwarding)

MUTUALLY INTERFERING SYSTEMS (10/30 &11/6)

Overview of the Interference Channel Problem
Mutual Interference as a Game
Mutual punishment as inducement (jamming game)
Waterfilling May Not Good Neighbors Make
An Etiquette for Signal Space Partitioning
Mutual Reward as inducement (pricing game)
A Higher Authority: agoras and pricing models (this is again, a larger hunk)

NETWORKS OF TRANSCEIVERS (11/13 &11/20)

Ad hoc network capacity discussion. Gupta & Kumar review and recent results on infrastructure support: Kozat and Tassiulas.
Are practical wireless networks capacity-limited?

ECONOMIC THEORY AND ISSUES (11/27 &12/4)

Overview and discussion of economic theory approaches to shared resource management
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/schedule/

Problems:

       Problem set 1

    Problem Set 2 (see email archive)

       Takehome Midterm

EXAMS:

Midterm on technical (comm. engineering) coverage and either a final or (more likely) a term paper on the general (economic and technical) issues of spectrum management in modern times.

TEXT:

TBA NOTES: Interference Avoidance (Popescu and Rose -- book draft) Various notes as needed

 

 
 
 

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