2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Information and Communications Engineering Graduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
Wireless Signal Processing
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Information and Communications Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kazuhiko Fukawa
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 3-4 Tue / 3-4 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ICT.S407
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The course focuses on applications of signal processing to wireless digital communications such as equalization, adaptive array antennas, and interference cancellation. In addition, adaptive algorithms, which estimate parameters of these items, are detailed.
A major aim of the lecture is to help students gain a deep understanding of important transmission techniques for wireless digital communications.
Course description and aims
Major aims of this course are as follows:
1) To be able to deeply understand principles of equalization, adaptive array antennas, and interference cancellation as signal processing techniques.
2) To be able to deeply comprehend principles of adaptive algorithms that estimate parameters of the above items.
Keywords
Wireless Communications, Signal Models, Wireless Channels, Wiener Filters, LMS, RLS, Kalman Filters, Adaptive Equalizers, Frequency Domain Equalization, Diversity Techniques, Turbo Code, Turbo Equalization, Adaptive Array Antenna, MIMO, Space Time Coding, Precoding
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
After the instructor's explanations using handouts, students are required to solve problems.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction for Wireless Communications and Review of Fourier Transform, Laplace Transform and z Transform. | Completely understand Fourier transform, Laplace transform and z transform. |
| Class 2 | Signal Models for Wireless Communications | Learn signal models for wireless communications. |
| Class 3 | Wireless Channels and their Statistical Properties | Learn wireless channels and their statistical properties. |
| Class 4 | Digital Modulation Schemes | Learn principles of digital modulation and several schemes. |
| Class 5 | Wiener Filters and LMS Algorithm | Understand principles of Wiener filters and the LMS algorithm. |
| Class 6 | RLS Algorithm | Completely understand the RLS algorithm. |
| Class 7 | Adaptive Equalizer I | Understand principles of linear equalizers as an adaptive equalizers. |
| Class 8 | Adaptive Equalizer II | Understand principles of DFE and MLSE as an adaptive equalizers. |
| Class 9 | OFDM and Its Frequency Domain Equalization | Learn principles of OFDM and frequency domain equalizers applied to it. |
| Class 10 | Diversity Techniques | Learn principles of diversity techniques. |
| Class 11 | Direction of Arrival (DOA) Estimation | Learn typical algorithms of DOA estimation such as DFT, MVDR, and MUSIC. |
| Class 12 | Turbo Code and Turbo Equalization | Learn principles of Turbo codes and Turbo equalization. |
| Class 13 | Principles of MIMO and its Receiver Schemes | Learn principles of MIMO techniques and its typical receiver schemes. |
| Class 14 | MIMO Techniques | Learn principles of space time codes and precoding. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
Any text books are not specified. Documents for the classes are distributed.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw-Hill
S. Haykin, Adaptive Filter Theory, Prentice-Hall
Evaluation methods and criteria
Marks are based on a terminal exam.
Related courses
- ZUS.M303 ： Digital Communications
- ZUS.C301 ： Signal Processing
- ICT.C511 ： Advanced Topics in Mobile Communications
Prerequisites
To complete the lectures "Communication Systems" or "Digital Communications" is recommended.