Instructor: Professor Kwang-Cheng Chen (E-mail: chenkc@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw TEL: 3366 3568 Office: BL-514)

Office Hours: Tuesday 4-5 p.m.; by appointment

Description: This course provides systematic introduction about fundamental mobile communication systems/networks/architecture. Focusing technologies in this year will be digital cellular (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, IS-95, and IMT-2000), wireless broadband communications (wireless local area networks, wireless personal area networks, and fixed/mobile broadband wireless communications). The course suitable for 1st or 2nd year graduate students and senior undergraduate students will be presented in different aspects: conceptual orientation, system design, and theoretical analysis.

Perquisite: Probability, Principles of Communications, Digital Communications or equivalent (preferred), Introduction to Computer Networks (preferred).

Outline:

1. Fundamentals of Mobile Communications
1.1. Basic Digital Communication Theory
1.2. Spread Spectrum, CDMA, and Multiuser Communications
1.3. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
2. Digital Cellular Systems
2.1. Mobile Communications Engineering
2.2. Standards
2.3. GSM, GPRS, and EDGE
2.4. Satellite Mobile Communications
2.5. CDMA Cellular
2.5.1. IS-95
2.5.2. UMTS
2.6. IMT-2000
3. Wireless Broadband Communications
3.1. Wireless LANs
3.1.1. IEEE 802.11
3.1.2. IEEE 802.11b
3.1.3. IEEE 802.11a and g
3.1.4. IEEE 802.11e (QoS)
3.1.5. IEEE 802.11i (Security)
3.1.6. ETSI Hiperlan/2*
3.2. Wireless Personal Area Networks
3.2.1. Bluetooth
3.2.2. Co-Existence Technologies
3.2.3. Ultra-Wide Band (UWB)
3.3. Fixed Broadband Wireless (WiMAX)
3.3.1. IEEE 802.16
3.3.2. IEEE 802.16a
3.3.3. IEEE 802.16e
3.4. Wireless Broadband Networks*
3.4.1. Wireless ATM
3.4.2. Wireless IP Networks
3.4.3. Guaranteed Quality-of-Service Access
3.4.4. Integration of Wireless and Fixed Networking Technologies
3.4.5. Consumer Networks
4. Emerging Technologies*
4.1. Software Radio
4.2. Re-configurable Networks
* may not be included if time is not allowed.

Textbook: Class Handouts & Slides
(Web site: http://www2.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~chenkc )

Primary References:

[1] Gordon Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, 1996.
[2] Ramjee Prasad, Universal Wireless Personal Communications, 1998.
[3] Yoshihiko Akaiwa, Digital Mobile Communications, 1997.
[4] Theodore Rappaport, Wireless Communications, 1996.
[5] William Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, 1998.
[6] J. Groe, L. Larson, CDMA Mobile radio Design, 2000.
[7] J. Terry, J. Heiskala, OFDM Wireless LANs, 2002.
[8] International standards

Grades: Term-Paper Proposal (April 24)
Final 60% (June 19)
Term-Paper 40% (June 26)

Term-Paper:

Each term-paper can be prepared by 1-3 persons. Those term-paper team with more than one person and the selected good proposals will be allocated 15-20 minutes for oral presentation on June 12. A half page proposal must due on April 24. Final version of term paper shall follow the paper format as IEEE Transactions on Communications. It must be written by students. The term-paper can be

(1) Summary of your reading papers/books/standards
(2) Simulation of existing paper(s)
(3) Hardware and software experiment(s)
(4) Other with an approved proposal

The scope of term paper can be any subject related to mobile communications in this course.