EE 359: Wireless Communications
Professor Andrea Goldsmith
Outline
l Course Basics
l Course Syllabus
l The Wireless Vision
l Technical Challenges
l Current Wireless Systems
l Emerging Wireless Systems
l Spectrum Regulation
l Standards
Course Information*
People
l Instructor: Andrea Goldsmith, andrea@ee,
Packard 371, OHs: MW after class and by
appt.
l TA: Mainak Chowdhury,
mainakch@stanford.edu,
l OHs: Tues 7-8 pm, Packard 109, Wed 7-8pm,
Packard 109
l Email OHs (ideally via Piazza): Thu 10-11am.
Piazza website:
https://piazza.com/stanford/fall2013/ee359/hom
e
l Discussion M or T pm?
*See web or handout for more details
l Class Administrator: Pat Oshiro,
Course Information
Nuts and Bolts
l Prerequisites: EE279 or equivalent (Digital
Communications)
l Required Textbook: Wireless Communications (by
me), CUP
l Available at bookstore or Amazon
l Extra credit for finding typos/mistakes/suggestions (2nd ed.
l Supplemental texts on 1 day reserve at Engineering
soon!)
Library.
l Class Homepage: www.stanford.edu/class/ee359
l All handouts, announcements, homeworks, etc. posted to
l “Lectures” link continuously updates topics, handouts, and
website
reading
l Class Mailing List: ee359-aut1314-students@lists
Course Information
Policies
l Grading: Two Options
l No Project (3 units): HW – 30%, 2 Exams – 30%, 40%
l Project (4 units): HWs- 20%, Exams - 25%, 30%, Project
- 25%
l HWs: assigned Thursday, due following Thursday
at 5pm
l Homeworks lose 33% credit per day late, lowest HW
l Up to 3 students can collaborate and turn in one HW
l Collaboration means all collaborators work out all
l Unpermitted collaboration or aid (e.g. solns for the book
dropped
writeup
problems together
or from prior years) is an honor code violation and will be
dealt with strictly.
Course Information
Projects
l The term project (for students electing to do a
project) is a research project related to any topic
in wireless
l Two people may collaborate if you convince me
the sum of the parts is greater than each
individually
l A 1 page proposal is due 10/24 at 5 pm.
l 5-10 hours of work typical for proposal
l Project website must be created and proposal posted
there
l The project is due by 5 pm on 12/8 (on website)
Course Syllabus
l Overview of Wireless Communications
l Path Loss, Shadowing, and Fading Models
l Capacity of Wireless Channels
l Digital Modulation and its Performance
l Adaptive Modulation
l Diversity
l MIMO Systems
l Multicarrier Modulation
l Spread Spectrum
l Intro to Wireless Networks (EE360)