EE320 Telecommunications Engineering Study Plan James K Beard, Ph.D.

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Topics Essentials – Text, SystemView, etc. Course Objectives, Summary, and Content Study Plan  Scope and coverage  Feedback and consultation  Study problems overview Term Project Suggested problems and examples  By chapter of the text  Simple – not marked, usually 15 minutes more if you really need to work them  Intermediate – marked as difficult or advanced  In-depth – for the interested, after you master the basics

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Essentials Text SystemView Prerequisites  Analog and Digital Communication: EE300  Analog and Digital Communication Laboratory: EE301  SystemView Office  E&A 709  Hours MWF 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM  Tuesdays 3:15 PM to 4:30 PM

Study Plan4 EE320 Spring 2005 Text and TUARC Text  Simon Haykin and Michael Moher, Modern Wireles Communicatinons ISBN SystemView User's Manual, Elanix, Inc   Look at TUARC  K3TU, websites  On roof of E&A building  See Dr. Silage for access

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Obtaining the Text Price is $ new Available from (see links on home page)  Barnes & Noble  Amazon  Op Amp Books Used prices are $45 to $75 Shipping is same-day or next-day Do order the text  From someone who lets you know when you will receive the book  From someone who has the book Do not order the text  From anyone who defers shipping – they don’t stock it or worse  From anyone that isn’t in the retail book business

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Ordering Books Order only for immediate shipment  Delayed shipment means that they don’t have it  If they offer a discount, they won’t get it until they can find it for less  You can get it as cheap as they can Amazon, B&N, et al offer used books

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Course Objectives Objectives as audited by ABET accreditation agency  Identify Concepts of pass band coherent and non-coherent modulation systems Societal and global issues in communication regulatory affairs  Apply Principles Angle modulation and demodulation to send and receive information Random processes to analyze the source and magnitude of error in information reception Signal analysis to optimal and efficient modulation systems Information theory to improve the performance of digital communication systems See Temple course web site for more information 

Study Plan8 EE320 Spring 2005 Course Summary Thirteen weeks of classes Two in-progress exams, one final exam  Open book  Practice exam prior to first exam  In-progress on 5 th and 9 th weeks, 20% of grade  Take-home supplementary exam  Final on fifteenth week, 40% of grade Individually assigned project  Assigned in fifth week  Execute your project in SystemView  40% of grade Deductions from final grade  0.5% for each unexcused absence  1% for each missed 10 minute Pop Quiz response

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Course Content EE320 is audited by ABET  Content is defined as part of curriculum  Course as formulated here is part of Temple’s accreditation agreement with ABET Content is selection of subjects from text  Selection is based on omitting overlap with EE300  Topics included are selected to support curriculum EE320 is part of a degree program  Material builds on prerequisites  Material supports follow-on courses

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 The Term Project Continue with the start that you turned in with the first quiz backup  Input Frequency sweep 1000 Hz to 3500 Hz Noise to obtain 20 dB SNR  Sampling to obtain good performance Do NOT pitch your beginning and pick up the ADC to bitstream modules as a template Sample and encode/decode as instructed Measure BER vs. Eb/N0 as instructed Compare hard decoding with soft decoding

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Topics (1 of 2) Propagation and Noise Modulation  FDMA  Pulse shading, power spectra, and FDMA  Bit Error Rate Coding  Information theory, and convolutional codes  Maximum likelihood decoding  Noise performance  TDMA

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Topics (2 of 2) Spread spectrum  CDMA  Direct-sequence modulation  Spreading codes and orthogonal spreading factors  Gold codes  Code synchronization  Power control  Frequency hopping and spread spectrum Wireless architectures

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Other Topics Examples  Antennas Some elements in Chapter 2 Basic principles of antenna gain are given Supports the link budget equations  Spacecraft constellation design – Out of scope of the course Limitations and prerogatives  EE320 has a lot of topics for 13 weeks – time is tight  Some controlled digression or exposition for context or to supplement the text material is good Time spent on unplanned material must not push planned topics out of the course

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Scope of the Study Plan Suggested extra readings Scope of the topics Homework problems  Selected for their study value  Chosen to take about 15 minutes apiece  From the Text  Three to five per chapter Suggested examples from the text

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Coverage of the Study Plan Text, Chapters 1 through 3 More will be added as they are needed Extra topics are available  SystemView examples  Modulation/demodulation

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Feedback and Consultation Let me know by whenever you  Are behind in the reading  Have a problem with a study item Specific issues, please  Good: “I don’t understand Problem 2.1 p. 18”  Good: “I need a little explanation of Example 2.17 pp ”  Bad: “I don’t understand Chapter 1” Channels  Simple, one-time issues such as Good above Anything that is between you and I  Office – Topics that require a conversation, not a single answer or response  Phone – during office hours only; or visit preferred

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Study Problems Overview Several are given for each chapter Pick the easiest first  Some of the longer or more difficult problems are marked as such here – don’t do them first  If you have difficulty with a problem and can’t resolve your problems with the text, put it aside and come back to it later In the event of difficulty  If an example is given, go through it thoroughly first  Re-read the text sections relating to the problems  Put it aside and come back to it after you work others  If the difficulty persists, send me an s to the Professor  Give the problem number  State your difficulty as specifically as possible

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Chapter 1 No homework problems in the text Look at it for an overview of the text

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Chapter 2 Study Problems Problem 2.1 p. 18, simple antenna gain equation Problem 2.5 p. 29, ground path loss, with answer Example 2.4 and problem 2.6, p. 33, availability Example 2.7 and Problem 2.9, pp , Doppler Example 2.9, an algebraic representation of multipath Example 2.14 pp , noise figure Example 2.18 and problem 2.20, pp Them Example 1 pp

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Chapter 3 Study Problems Problem 3.1 p. 108, amplitude modulation is nonlinear (what about SSB?) Problem 3.2 p. 110, a simple illustration of sidebands Problem 3.3, p. 112, AM sidebands from pulse modulation Problem 3.4 p. 119, take some time to do a Fourier transform, with answers Example 3.4 and problem 3.5, pp , a comparison of pulse shaping; example was given in class Problem 3.11 p. 139, find the zeros of S B (f) as given by eq. (3.65) p. 138; answer may be wrong Problem 3.12, Weiner-Hoph equation; an advanced (difficult) problem Examine and understand Table 3.4 p. 159, a fundamental topic in bit error rate Problem 3.17 p. 173, modulation; a long problem – think about how you would work this one with SystemView Problem 3.30, p. 177, Adjacent channel interference Problem 3.35 p. 178, look at part (a); part (b) was done in class Problem 3.36 p. 178, an intermediate difficulty problem in bit error rate using MSK

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Chapter 4 Study Problems Example 4.1 page 197 Problem 4.1 page 197 Problem 4.2 page 198 Study Haykin & Moher Table 4.3 Page 201 and associated text Problem 4.5 p. 243 Problems 4.6, 4.7 p. 252

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Chapter 5 Study Problems Problem 5.1 p. 262 Problem 5.2 p. 263 Problem 5.7 p. 273 Problem 5.12 p. 290 Problem 5.15 p. 294 (ref RAKE Receiver) Problem 5.17 p. 299 Problem 5.19 page 305 Theme Example 1: IS-95, pp Theme Example 4: WCDMA pp

Study Plan EE320 Spring 2005 Chapter 7 Study Problems Problem 7.3 page 477 (Hint: Look at the IS-95 Theme Example, pages ) Problem 7.6 page 477 (Hint: do a time slot-frequency channel utilization diagram) Problem 7.7 page 477