Lecture Notes
ECE6604: Personal & Mobile Communications

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Fall 2019

Lecture notes for the Fall 2019 offering will usually be posted before the week begins and possibly updated after each scheduled class.

 

Week Date Topic Reading Assigned Due
1 8/19-8/23 Introduction, Path Loss, Co-channel Interference, Link Budget Ch. 1, Ch. 11.1    
2 8/26-8/30 Interference and Shadow Margins, Handoff Gain, Coverage, Capacity Ch. 1 Hmwk#1
8/30/19

 
3 9/3-9/6 Flat Fading, Envelope Distribution 2, 2.1, 2.1.3    
4 9/9-9/13 Envelope Correlation, Space-time Correlation 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.6,derivation of Eq. (2.22) Hmwk#2
9/13/19
Hmwk#1
9/13/19
5 9/16-9/20 Level Crossing Rate and Average Fade Duration,
Statistical Channel Modeling,
Fading Simulators
2.1.5, 2.3, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2    
6 9/23-9/27 Fading Simulators, Wideband and COST207 Models, Symbol-spaced Channel Model  2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4,
2.5.6
Hmwk#3
9/27/19
Hwk#2
9/27/19
7 9/30-10/4 Path Loss Models, Shadowing 2.6, 2.7    
8 10/7-10/11  Co-Channel Interference 3.1-3.3 Hmwk#4
10/11/19
Hmwk#3
10/11/19
9 10/16-10/18 Modulation Techniques,  2019 Quiz Solutions 4.1-4.6    
10 10/21-10/25 Modulation Techniques 4.1-4.6 Hmwk#5
10/25/19
Hmwk#4
10/25/19
11 10/28-11/1  Continuous Phase Modulation, Power Spectrum of Digitally Modulated Signals 4.7, 4.8, 4.9  
12 11/4-11/8 Coherent Detection and Error Probability on Flat Fading Channels, OFDM on AWGN and ISI Channels 5.1-5.8, 10.1 Hmwk#6
11/8/19
Hmwk#5
11/8/19
13 11/11-11/15 Multiantenna Techniques 6.1-6.3, 6.8    
14 11/18-11/22 MIMO Channels, Alamouti Space-time Code, Spatial Multiplexing 6.10,6.11 Hmwk#7
11/22/19
Hmwk#6
11/22/19
15 11/25-11/26 Massive MIMO 6.14    
16 12/2-12/3 Summary, 2017 Final Exam Practice
2017 Final Exam Solutions
    Hmwk#7
12/2/19
   12/9 Final Exam: 
Monday December 9, 2:40pm - 5:30pm
Old Exams

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