Wireless Communications Techniques

Catalog description

This course focuses on techniques for data transmission over the wireless channel. Students who take this course will start by learning about digital communications over the noisy channel, including how to model, simulate, and evaluate the system’s performance. Then, they will move on to the wireless channel, which presents a new set of challenges, such as multipath fading. Students will learn techniques to achieve reliable, efficient communication over this channel, such as coding, diversity, and MIMO. Students will be assigned exercises where they’ll use a computer and a software-defined radio to simulate, design, and evaluate their own communications systems.