| General Course Information: |
| A crucial feature of wireless systems is that all users must share a common physical medium in order to communicate. This class investigates the different methods that can be used to solve this multiple access problem. In certain situations, one multiple access technique may be far superior to the others, in other situations it may be inferior. After taking this course, the student should understand the important aspects of each technique and the tradeoffs between them. This knowledge could be applied either to system design in industry, or academic research. To solidify this understanding, students will develop an original project that will address communication in a multiuser channel.
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| Instructor Information: |
Instructor: Prof. Jeff Andrews
Lecture Hours: MW 5:00--6:15pm, ENS 115
Office Hours: MW 1:00--2:00, TuTh 1:30--2:30pm
Office: ENS 434, phone: 471-0536
E-mail:jandrews@ece.utexas.edu
Web: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~jandrews
Unique Course Number: 15882
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| TA Information |
TA: Yaoqing Yang
E-mail: yqyang@ece.utexas.edu
Office Hours: M 3:00pm-5:00pm
Office Address: ENS 406, 471-6168
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| Prerequisites |
The following prerequisites are required, but will be briefly reviewed:
° Digital Communications (EE 381K-2 or equivalent)
° Wireless Communications (EE 381K-11 or equivalent)
° Digital Signal Processing (EE 381K-8 or equivalent
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| Recommended Textbook |
Sergio Verdu, Multiuser Detection, Cambridge.
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| Supplemental Readings |
Supplemental Reading List, same as in Prometheus
Gordon Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communication, Kluwer.
Ted Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Prentice-Hall.
John Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw Hill.
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| Grading |
17.5% Exam 1 (1.5 hrs)
17.5% Exam 2 (1.5 hrs)
10% Homeworks
10% Literature Reviews
5% Presentation of Literature Review
5% Class Participation
35% Project
Course evaluation will be completed on the last day of class.
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| Other Course Information |
There will be about six homework assignments for this course, concentrated before the first exam in order to allow more effort to be put into the project towards the second half of the course.Students are encouraged to try the homework problems on their own, and then refine their understanding and solution with another student or group of students. Simply copying will be considered cheating. Homework will be due by 5pm on Wednesdays to a drop box outside Prof. Andrews's office. Late homeworks will be accepted only in the most extraordinary of circumstances (if you aren't sure that your excuse is extraordinary, then it isn't).
In addition to the homework, three literature reviews will be required, and conducted in pairs (with one group of three, if required). The first two reviews will be on required reading, the equivalent of about 2-3 journal papers. The last one is up to the discretion of the group, and will require a 15-20 minute presentation to the rest of the class.
Applying the concepts of this class to a project is the most important aspect of this course. The goal is to begin an original work that will ultimately result in a conference paper. A proposal, literature review, and final report will be required. Collaboration with a partner is optional but encouraged, although this will naturally increase the expectations for the scope and quality of the project. The exact mechanics of the project will be discussed in class.
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| Regrade Policy
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All requests for regrades, on homework or exams, must be submitted in writing within a week of their return to you. No verbal complaints will be considered. Mistakes can be made in the grading process and we will correct those, but it is extremely unlikely that more partial credit will be given. The basic idea here is that we don't want to indirectly penalize those students who don't ask for regrades. Also be aware that the result of a regrade can actually be a lower score as we will regrade the entire problem being protested.
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| Disclaimer |
This is a new course. Not only is it new to UT Austin, but to my knowledge, it has never been taught in this format at any university. There is no textbook that covers these topics in a unified fashion as we will in this class. There will be typos and changes of schedule. I'll do my best to keep these organizational problems to a minimum, but these are inevitable in a brand new class. As students, your feedback and participation in the class are even more important than normal.
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| Course Drop/Add Policy
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An engineering student must have the Dean's approval to add or drop a course after the fourth class day of the semester.
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| Students with Disabilities
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| The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office of the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641 TDD or the College of Engineering Director of Students with Disabilities at 471-4382.
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