Course Syllabus

 
EE651: Spread Spectrum and CDMA

 

 

Textbook:

 
[1] R. L. Peterson, R. E. Ziemer, and D. E. Borth, Introduction to Spread Spectrum Communications, Prentice Hall, 1995. (ISBN 0-02-431623-7)


 

Other Recommended Readings:

 
[2] J. S. Lee and L. E. Miller, CDMA Systems Engineering Handbook, Artech House, 1998. (ISBN 0-89006-990-5)

[3] A. J. Viterbi, CDMA: Principles of Spread Spectrum Communication, Addison-Wesley, 1995.

[4] R. C. Dixon, Spread Spectrum Systems with Commercial Applications, 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
[5] T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2001.

[6] W. C. Y. Lee, Mobile Communications Engineering: Theory and Applications, 2nd edition, McGraw Hill, 1997.
[7] J. G. Proakis, M. Salehi, and G. Bauch, Contemporary Communication Systems Using MATLAB and Simulink, Second edition, Brooks/Cole Pub Co., 2004.

[8] IEEE Commu. Magazine; IEEE Wireless Commu.; IEEE Trans. Commun.; IEEE Trans. VT ; IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

 
Grading:

 
Homework 25%

Project 20%

Midterm (open book) 25%

Final (open book) 30%

 
About late HW: For late HW submission, you get 75% of HW grade.

 

Course Description:

 

This course teaches the fundamentals of digital communication that are the foundation for many of the techniques employed in the generation of spread spectrum waveform. These include pseudo-random codes, modulation and demodulation techniques, synchronization, statistical distributions, direct sequence (DS) and frequency hopping (FH) spread spectrum, and capacity calculation for a CDMA system. Students gain an overview of wireless architecture, spread spectrum communication, statistical distributions used in wireless communication, design of optimum receivers, calculation of theoretical capacity of a CDMA system, coding and decoding processes in CDMA, effects of interference in CDMA, and synchronization in CDMA wireless communication systems. 3G wireless systems using CDMA technologies are also studied in this course.
 

Course Objectives:

 
Upon completing this course student should be able to:

- Understand the architecture and elements of a spread-spectrum system and a CDMA system

- Understand the characteristics of spread-spectrum signal waveforms

- Apply their knowledge of communications technology to CDMA and wireless systems

- Understand the methods for spread-spectrum and CDMA system performance analysis

- Capture most recent development in CDMA and its role in 3G wireless systems

 
Topical Outline: 

 

-  Week  -

Chapter/Lecture

HW

0

Orientation

None

1

Chapter 1  Basic digital communications concepts

HW1

2

Chapter 2  Introduction to spread-spectrum systems

HW2

3

Chapter 3  Binary shift-register sequences for spread-spectrum systems

HW3

4

Chapter 4  Code tracking loops

HW4

5

Chapter 5  Initial synchronization of the receiver spread code

HW5

6

Chapter 6  Performance of spread-spectrum systems in jamming environments

HW6

7

Midterm

Midterm

8

Project assignment

Project assignment

Chapter 7  Performance of spread-spectrum systems with forward error correction

HW7

9

Chapter 8  Introduction to fading channels

HW8

10

Chapter 9  CDMA digital cellular systems

HW9

11

CDMA and 3G wireless systems

HW10

12

CDMA and HDR

Project due

13

Chapter 10 Low-probability-of-intercept methods

None

14

Final

Final