2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Wireless Communication Engineering
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Kei Sakaguchi / Gia Khanh Tran
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Mon / 7-8 Thu
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.S451
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course enables students to have basic techniques to design wireless communication systems such as wireless LANs and cellular systems as in our daily lives. By picking up IEEE802.11a as a representative of modern wireless communication system, the course gives details about technologies used in the system such as interference management, diversity combining, and multiplexing. At the end of the course, students will be able to understand the design concept, transceiver architecture, role of components, and specifications of IEEE802.11a wireless LAN.
In the class, advanced knowledge on channel propagation, modulation/demodulation, diversity combining, error correction coding, adaptive modulation coding, adaptive equalizer, orthogonal frequency multiplexing, array signal processing, and MIMO multiplexing are lectured and all of them are mandatory technologies for modern wireless communication systems.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Design link budget of wireless communication systems at given environments.
2) Understand transceiver architecture and its specifications of modern wireless LANs and cellular systems.
3) Describe wireless communication systems mathematically by utilizing Fourier transform and applied probability and statistics
4) Understand general technologies for interference, channel fading, and multiplexing used in modern wireless communication systems.
Keywords
wireless communication system, system model, modulation/demodulation, channel fading, diversity combining, error correction coding, adaptive modulation coding, adaptive equalizer, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, array signal processing, MIMO spatial multiplexing
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
At the end of class, daily exercise is provided for better understanding. Demonstration using MATLAB is also given to accelerate intuitive understand.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to wireless communication systems | Understand Chap.1 and 7 of textbook. |
| Class 2 | Link budget design of wireless access | Understand Chap. 2 and 5 of textbook. |
| Class 3 | Up/down conversion and equivalent baseband system | Application of signal systems and Fourier Transformation. |
| Class 4 | Digital modulation and pulse shaping | Understand Sect. 3.3 and 3.4 of textbook. |
| Class 5 | Matched filter and demodulation | Understand Sect. 3.5 of textbook. |
| Class 6 | Detection and error due to noise | Understand Sect. 3.5 of textbook. |
| Class 7 | Test level of understanding with exercise problems | Test level of understanding and self-evaluate achievement for classes 1-6. |
| Class 8 | Channel fading and diversity combining | Understand Sect. 4.3 of textbook. |
| Class 9 | Error correction coding | Understand Sect. 4.6 of textbook. |
| Class 10 | Adaptive modulation coding | Application of digital modulation and error correction coding. |
| Class 11 | Inter symbol interference and adaptive equalizer | |
| Class 12 | Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) | Understand Sect. 3.7 of textbook. |
| Class 13 | Array signal processing and MIMO communication system | Array signal processing and its extension to MIMO communications |
| Class 14 | Test level of understanding with exercise problems | Test level of understanding and self-evaluate achievement for classes 8-13. |
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)
H. Matsue, M. Morikura, A. Sato, K. Watanabe, "Broadband Wireless Access Technologies," IEICE, 2004. (in Japanese)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
S. Haykin, M. Moher, "Communication Systems," 5th Eds, Wiley, 2009.
S. Sampei, K. Sakaguchi, "Wireless Distributed Networks," IEICE, 2011. (in Japanese)
S. Taromaru, K. Sakaguchi, "Design Methodology of Software Defined Radio," Kagakujyoho shuppan, 2016. (in Japanese)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students' knowledge of link budget design, transceiver architecture and specifications, mathematical representation of wireless systems, technologies for interference, channel fading, and multiplexing for wireless communication systems will be assessed.
Mid-term and final exam 50%, daily exercises 50%.
Related courses
- EEE.M211 ： Fourier Transform and Laplace Transform
- EEE.M201 ： Analysis for Electrical and Electronic Engineers
- EEE.M231 ： Applied Probability and Statistical Theory
- EEE.S341 ： Communication Theory (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
- EEE.S351 ： Signal System
Prerequisites
Students must have successfully completed both Communication Theory and Signal Systems or have equivalent knowledge.