TELCOM 2710: Foundations of Wireless Communications

Spring 2011


Instructor:
Prashant Krishnamurthy

718, IS Bldg.
Tel: 412-624-5144
prashk AT pitt DOT edu

Course Material

Course Overview

The objective of this course is to provide a deeper understanding of the physical layer issues that are significantly different for wireless communications as compared with wired communications. It will only briefly cover the basic concepts of modulation as it used to in the past (this is moved into TELCOM 2210), but will instead look at advanced topics in the physical layer. This includes a study of radio propagation in different environments, its effects on digital transmission, diversity techniques, and the modulation and coding techniques that are employed to overcome its effects in wireless systems. This class is required as part of the preliminary exam for all Ph.D. students in Telecommunications. This term, we will try to cover direct-sequence spread spectrum, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, and multiple-input multiple-output transmission in detail.

Pre-requisites

Signals and Systems, TELCOM 2210 Physical Layer of Communications 2 or its equivalent, Calculus, and Probability

Textbook (Required)

S. Haykin and M. Moher, Modern Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall, 2005. (ISBN: 0-13-022472-3)

Textbook (Recommended)

David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (ISBN: 0-521-84527-0)


If you are having a disability for which you are or may be requesting an accommodation, you are encouraged to contact both your instructor and the Office of Disability Resources and Services (DRS), 216 William Pitt Union (412-648-7890/412-383-7355) as early as possible in the term. DRS will verify your disability and determine reasonable accommodations for this course.