This course develops the fundamentals of wireless systems engineering and applies them to challenges in detection, interference, and electromagnetic warfare. Students study signal representation, radio propagation and channel effects, modulation, coding, receiver performance, and multiple-access design, with a strong focus on understanding engineering tradeoffs. The course emphasizes systems-level reasoning: analyzing what information needs to be communicated, why
certain frequencies, modulations, coding, and protocols are chosen, and where vulnerabilities may exist. Hands-on exercises using software-defined radios and simulation tools reinforce these concepts and allow students to design, test, and evaluate resilient or contested wireless links. Pending ABET-PEV review of ET=3.0CR.
This course provides an introduction to wireless systems engineering with applications to voice and data networks. Description of well known systems such as cell phones, pagers, and wireless LAN's is presented along with the design considerations for deployment of wireless networks. Wireless radio channel modeling along with common impairments such as multipath fading are introduced and modulation techniques well suited to the wireless applications are presented. Receivers for the various modulation schemes are analyzed in terms of performance and the trade-offs offered by source and channel coding are presented. Multiple access techniques used in wireless applications are introduced and the design of networks described. The course concludes with an analysis and description of deployed systems along with their standards and services provided.
This course provides an introduction to wireless systems engineering with applications to voice and data networks. Description of well known systems such as cell phones, pagers, and wireless LAN's is presented along with the design considerations for deployment of wireless networks. Wireless radio channel modeling along with common impairments such as multipath fading are introduced and modulation techniques well suited to the wireless applications are presented. Receivers for the various modulation schemes are analyzed in terms of performance and the trade-offs offered by source and channel coding are presented. Multiple access techniques used in wireless applications are introduced and the design of networks described. The course concludes with an analysis and description of deployed systems along with their standards and services provided.
