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ECE 414

Wireless Communications

Undergraduate

Spring 2026 · Communications over Fading Dispersive Channels

Topics

  • Wireless-channel models, path loss and multipath
  • Coherence bandwidth, Doppler effects and fading
  • Digital modulation and detection
  • Error performance over AWGN and fading channels
  • OFDM and equalization
  • Receiver, transmit and MIMO diversity
  • Spread spectrum and multiple access
  • Cellular frequency reuse, resource allocation and interference
  • Possible coding, space-time codes and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Readings

  • Wireless Communications
    A. Goldsmith · unspecified
    Cambridge, 2005; reprints 2007 and 2009. Listed as the main textbook.
  • Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
    D. Tse and P. Viswanath · recommended
    Cambridge, 2005. Title as listed in outline.
  • Wireless Communications
    A. F. Molisch · recommended
    Wiley, 2010 and 2019 as listed.
  • Research-paper options for the course project are posted on LEARN.
    unspecified
Spring 2025 · Communications over Fading Dispersive Channels

Topics

  • Wireless fading, multipath, delay spread and Doppler
  • Receiver and transmitter diversity
  • OFDM and channel uncertainty
  • Cellular multiple access and interference management
  • AWGN, SIMO and MISO capacity
  • Power allocation and channel-state information
  • Multiuser capacity, successive interference cancellation and opportunistic communication

Readings

  • Fundamentals of Wireless Communications
    D. Tse and P. Viswanath · unspecified
    Cambridge, 2005; listed course textbook; title as printed. Free version linked at https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html
  • Project may review a paper from a list posted on LEARN, or an instructor-approved paper chosen by the student.
    unspecified
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