Spring 2016

EE209AS: Special Topics in

Wireless Communications System Design
Instructor: Danijela Cabric
Time: Tue/Thu 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Course Description
This course presents a top-down approach to wireless communications system design. It focuses on emerging
and state-of-the-art wireless radio technologies (cognitive, UWB, 60GHz, and 5G radios). The course will cover
algorithms, architectures and implementation for radio transceivers, physical and network layer functionalities.

Topics
Wireless Communications System Design
Fundamentals
Channel modeling
Single-carrier and Multi-carrier systems
Multiple antenna systems
Transceiver Architectures

Impact of RF impairments

Correction of RF impairments

Novel radio and systems architectures:

Cognitive Radios
Ultra-wideband Radios
mmWave (60 GHz) Radios
5G systems
Physical/MAC Layer Functions:
Spectrum Sensing
Wideband Signaling
Interference suppression
MIMO and beamforming

Grading
2 Homeworks (40%)
1 project (Matlab/Simulink) + term paper (60%)

If you have any questions please email:

danijela@ee.ucla.edu