ECE 738: Fundamentals of Wireless Communications 

     Organizational Meeting: Monday, Sept. 14 from 1:30 - 4:30 pm in ITB/A113B

Lecture:

    Monday, 2:30-5:30pm, ABB/164

     Lecture 1: Review of information theory (I)

     Lecture 2: Review of information theory (II)

     Lecture 3: Capacity of discrete-time memoryless channels (report due on Oct. 19, 2009)

     Lecture 4: Signalling and coding (I) (Oct. 19, 2009)

     Lecture 5: Signalling and coding (II)

     Lecture 6: Coherent channel and opportunistic communication (report due on Nov. 16, 2009)

     Lecture 7: Stationary Gaussian process (I)

     Lecture 8: Stationary Gaussian process (II)

     Lecture 9: Intersymbol interference

     Lecture 10: Waveform channel

References:

     David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2005

     Robert Gallager, Principles of Digital Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2008

     Amos Lapidoth, A Foundation in Digital Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2008

     Robert Gallager, Information Theory and Reliable Communication, Wiley, 1968

     John Wozencraft and Irwin Jacobs, Principles of Communication Engineering, Waveland Press, Inc., 1965

     Thomas Cover and Joy Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, Wiley, 2006

     Raymond Yeung, Information Theory and Network Coding, Springer, 2008