ECE 5680 - [Wireless Communication]

Fall. Next Offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: ECE 4110.

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This course will teach the fundamentals of wireless communication and state-of-the-art technologies used in modern wireless systems. The following topics are covered: models of wireless channels, point-to-point and multi-user communication, fading, capacity, outage, error-rates, diversity, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), space-time coding, data detection and decoding, pre-coding and beamforming, relaying, and RF impairments. The lectures will focus on theory; the homework assignments will focus on algorithm and simulator development in Julia, a modern dynamic programming language for scientific computing.