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ECE 614

Communications Over Fading Dispersive Channels

Graduate

Spring 2026

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

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
Spring 2024 · Wireless Communications

Readings

  • D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communications , Cambridge University Press, 2005. Free online: https://web.stanford.edu/~dntse/wireless_book.html
    unspecified
Spring 2022

Topics

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Readings

  • R. S. Kennedy, Fading Dispersive Communication Channels, Wiley-Interscience, 1969.
    unspecified
  • G.L. Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, 4th ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2017.
    4th ed. · unspecified
  • M. Schwartz, W.R. Bennett, and S. Stein, Communication Systems and Techniques, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1996.
    unspecified
  • S. Haykin. Communication Systems. 4th ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2001
    4th ed. · unspecified
  • S. Haykin. Digital Communication systems. John Wiley & Sons, 2014
    unspecified
  • M. Şafak, Digital Communications. John Wiley & Sons, 2017
    unspecified
  • R.E. Ziemer and R.L. Peterson, Digital C ommunications and Spread Spectrum S ystems. New York: Macmillan, 1985
    unspecified
Spring 2021 · Fading Dispersive Channels

Readings

  • R. S. Kennedy, Fading Dispersive Communication Channels, Wiley-Interscience, 1969.
    unspecified
  • G.L. Stuber, Principles of Mob ile Communications, 4th ed., Kluw er Academic Publishers, 2017.
    4th ed. · unspecified
  • W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1997.
    2nd ed. · unspecified
  • M. Schwartz, W.R. Bennett, and S. Stein, Communication Systems and Techniques, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1996.
    unspecified
Fall 2017

Readings

  • R. S. Kennedy, Fading Dispersive Communication Channels, Wiley-Interscience, 1969. (TK5101.K4)
    unspecified
  • A.J. Viterbi, CDMA – Principle of Spread Spectrum Communication, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. (TK5103.45.V57 1995)
    unspecified
  • J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2000. (TK5103.7. P76 2000)
    4th ed. · unspecified
  • G.L. Stuber, Principles of Mobile Communications, 2nd ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. (TK6570.M6 S78 2001)
    2nd ed. · unspecified
  • W.C.Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 1997 (TK6570.M6L44 1997)
    2nd ed. · unspecified
  • M. Schwartz,W.R. Bennett, and S. Stein, Communication Systems and Techniques, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. (TK5101.S298)
    unspecified
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