Wireless Communications (EE402) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Wireless Communications EE402 2 2 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
EE 316
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Demonstration, Problem Solving, Team/Group.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yaser DALVEREN
Course Assistants
Course Objectives The aim of this course is to provide a background for wireless principles and techniques.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • describe operation of wireless communication systems
  • discuss radio propagation including path loss and multipath fading
  • discuss effects of noise and interference on wireless transmission systems
  • describe and compare some important bandpass modulation schemes
  • discuss importance of multiple access techniques in multiuser wireless systems
  • describe spread spectrum communication, diversity and combining techniques
Course Content Introduction to wireless systems and standards, radio propagation effects, coverage and statistical channel modeling, time-varying channels, fading effects, various bandpass modulation schemes and detection systems, channel capacity, spread spectrum communications, diversity and combining in cellular systems.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Introduction to wireless communication systems, current wireless systems and standars, wireless spectrum-1 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
2 Introduction to wireless communication systems, current wireless systems and standars, wireless spectrum-2 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
3 Introduction to wireless communication systems, current wireless systems and standars, wireless spectrum-3 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
4 Radio propagation effects, path loss and shadowing, ray tracing, outage probability, cell coverage-1 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
5 Radio propagation effects, path loss and shadowing, ray tracing, outage probability, cell coverage-2 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
6 Radio propagation effects, path loss and shadowing, ray tracing, outage probability, cell coverage-3 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
7 Midterm examination-1 Study the lecture notes
8 Cellular systems, cell planning, interference effects on capacity, dynamic resource allocation-1 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
9 Cellular systems, cell planning, interference effects on capacity, dynamic resource allocation-2 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
10 Midterm examination-2 Study the lecture notes
11 Wireless channel capacity, AWGN channels, flat-fading and frequency selective channels-1 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
12 Wireless channel capacity, AWGN channels, flat-fading and frequency selective channels-2 Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
13 Statistical channel modeling, time-varying channel responses, narrowband and wideband channels, space-time channel models Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
14 Digital modulations, signal space analysis, receiver structures, speread spectrum techniques, diversity techniques Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
15 Review of topics Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson
16 Final examination period Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson

Sources

Course Book 1. Haykin, S. and Moher, M., Modern Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall, 2005.
Other Sources 2. Goldsmith, A., Wireless Communications, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005.
3. Couch, L.W, Digital and Analog Communicatin Systems, 7th ed., Prentice Hall, 2007.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics 10 20
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 50
Toplam 12 100
Percentage of Semester Work 70
Percentage of Final Work 30
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. X
2 Implementing long-term research and development studies in major areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. X
3 Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. X
4 Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship.
5 Ability to report and present research results effectively.
6 Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology.
7 An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
8 Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English.
9 Increasing the performance on project management.
10 Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics 10 1 10
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 10 10
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 15 15
Total Workload 125