The design project has significant flexibility, and you can decide very early what to do. Typical projects usually involve two components:

• Literature review. Try to include the most recent literature references.
• Software simulation. The simulation tools and platform is your choice.

You are strongly encouraged to focus your project, making it narrower and deeper rather than broader and shallower. Try to be more quantitative and analytical rather than qualitative and descriptive.  Broad qualitative overviews of a topic with little or no analysis and/or computer simulation are not acceptable.

The project is be completed individually or in pairs. To satisfy the project requirement, you are required to

• Select an appropriate topic and submit a one page abstract with an attached list of preliminary literature references no later than Wednesday September 18, 2019.   You will not be graded on this, but you will get feedback if necessary to help you better define your project topic.
• Prepare and submit a final report no later than Monday November 25, 2019.  You can submit your project earlier, but there will be no extensions and late projects will not accepted.

Your final report format should follow the style format used for submission to IEEE Journals.  Style files are available at the following URL:  https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-tools-and-ieee-article-templates/ieee-article-templates/templates-for-transactions/   LaTeX users can use the style file IEEETran.sty or IEEETran.cls.  The report should not exceed a total of 20 pages  (IEEE single column format)  (25 pages for pairs), plus a maximum of 12 figures and tables.  Use the one-column format rather than the two-column format.

ECE6604 is a course in physical wireless communications. You must choose a project topic dealing with physical, MAC and connection layer issues. Topics dealing with wireless networking architectures and protocols, mobility management, etc.,  are outside the scope of  ECE6604!  Usually, if your project includes some model of the wireless channel, it will be acceptable.  If you have doubts about your project topic, please check with the instructor before proceeding.  

Plagiarism:   It is essential that you properly reference your sources for your text, figures and tables.  Cases of plagiarism, such as unreferenced verbatim copying or paraphrasing from ANY source, will be referred to the Dean of Students for investigation and penalties.  arism, such as unreferenced verbatim copying or paraphrasing from ANY source, will be referred to the Dean of Students for investigation and penalties.  

The following is a list of some possible project topics.   You are free to choose your own topic as well.

• Advanced channel modeling and simulation techniques.
• Adaptive modulation and coding techniques
• CDMA multiuser detection techniques.
• Multicarrier techniques:  OFDM, MC-CDMA, SC-FDMA (pick one)
• Receiver time/frequency/sample synchronization.
• Time domain equalization techniques.
• Frequency domain equalization techniques.
• Single antenna interference cancellation.
• Space-time coding and diversity techniques.
• Spatial multiplexing techniques.
• Spatial modulation techniques.
• Space division multiple access.
• Multiuser diversity techniques.
• Bit interleaved coded modulation.
• Iterative receiver techniques.
• Automatic repeat request techniques.
• CDMA power control and soft hand-off algorithms.
• Cooperative communications and relay networks.
• Cellular network-based radiolocation  techniques.
• Software radio sample rate conversion and/or channelization.
• Cognitive radio spectrum sensing and/or dynamic spectrum management.
• Intelligent transport systems.
• Connected vehicle systems.
• Green radio.
• mm-wave cellular communication
• A topic of your own - talk to me about it first!

You will need a good list of journal and conference publications for your project.  Most of the following pulications are available on-line through IEEE Xplore available online at the Georgia Tech Library www.library.gatech.edu

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
• IEEE Communications Letters
• Proceedings of the IEE
• IEE Electronics Letters
• Kluwer Journal on Wireless Personal Communications
• Plenum International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
• IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC)
• IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc. (ICASSP)
• YRP Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications