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Catalogue 2006-07:
Covers the description analysis and design of Spread Spectrum Systems in military, navigation and wireless communication applications: portable, mobile, cellular and micro-cellular (PCS), including the industry standard IS-95. Prerequisite: EE 564; recommended preparation: EE 568.
Professor Urbashi Mitra, Associate Professor
1. To understand the application of detection and modulation theory to spread spectrum systems
2. To be able to evaluate the performance of spread spectrum systems under a variety of channel and interference conditions.
3. To understand current and future standards.
1. Introduction to Spread Spectrum Communications, R. Ziemer, R. Peterson and D. Borth, Prentice Hall, 1995
2. Multiuser Detection, S. Verdu, Cambridge University Press 1998
Topics:
1. Why spread spectrum?
2. Multiuser detection
3. Wireless channels (fading and multipath)
4. Methods of spread spectrum (frequency hopping, time hopping, direct-sequence)
5. Spreading sequences
6. Acquisition and synchronization
7. (time permitting) Special topics: multirate DS-CDMA and space-time coding for DS-CDMA
8. Standards and current systems
Course Outcomes:
The students will be able to
1. Understand wireless channel models and the practical impact of system choices (transmission bandwidth, modulation, data rate) on the effective channel model.
2. Select a multi-user spread spectrum multiple access technique based on system requirements.
3. Design and select a set of spreading sequences based on system requirements.
4. Design a suite of multi-user detection strategies for a given set of requirements.
5. Analyze the performance of these detectors via simulation and theoretical performance analysis.
6. Design and analyze serial search synchronization methods for spread-spectrum signals.
7. Understand the design choices made for past, current and future standards.
8. Understand the implication of standards on system parameters.
Prepared by: Urbashi Mitra Date: September 27, 2006
