Comprehensive Study Plan for EE320 Telecommunications Engineering: Course Details and Resources

1. EE320 Telecommunications Engineering Study Plan James K Beard, Ph.D. jkbeard@temple.edu http://astro.temple.edu/~jkbeard/

2. Topics • Essentials – Text, SystemView, etc. • Course Objectives, Summary, and Content • Study Plan • Scope and coverage • Feedback and consultation • Study problems overview • Term Project • Suggested problems and examples • By chapter of the text • Simple – not marked, usually 15 minutes more if you really need to work them • Intermediate – marked as difficult or advanced • In-depth – for the interested, after you master the basics Study Plan

3. Essentials • Text • SystemView • Prerequisites • Analog and Digital Communication: EE300 • Analog and Digital Communication Laboratory: EE301 • SystemView • Office • E&A 709 • Hours MWF 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM • Tuesdays 3:15 PM to 4:30 PM Study Plan

4. Text and TUARC • Text • Simon Haykin and Michael Moher, Modern Wireles Communicatinons ISBN 0-13-022472-3 • SystemView User's Manual, Elanix, Inc • http://www.elanix.com/ • http://www.elanix.com/pdf/SVUGuide.pdf • Look at TUARC • K3TU, websites • http://www.temple.edu/ece/tuarc.htm • http://www.temple.edu/k3tu • On roof of E&A building • See Dr. Silage for access Study Plan

5. Obtaining the Text • Price is $111.15 new • Available from (see links on home page) • Barnes & Noble • Amazon • Op Amp Books • Used prices are $45 to $75 • Shipping is same-day or next-day • Do order the text • From someone who lets you know when you will receive the book • From someone who has the book • Do not order the text • From anyone who defers shipping – they don’t stock it or worse • From anyone that isn’t in the retail book business Study Plan

6. Ordering Books • Order only for immediate shipment • Delayed shipment means that they don’t have it • If they offer a discount, they won’t get it until they can find it for less • You can get it as cheap as they can • Amazon, B&N, et al offer used books Study Plan

7. Course Objectives • Objectives as audited by ABET accreditation agency • Identify • Concepts of pass band coherent and non-coherent modulation systems • Societal and global issues in communication regulatory affairs • Apply Principles • Angle modulation and demodulation to send and receive information • Random processes to analyze the source and magnitude of error in information reception • Signal analysis to optimal and efficient modulation systems • Information theory to improve the performance of digital communication systems • See Temple course web site for more information • http://www.temple.edu/ece/ee320.htm Study Plan

8. Course Summary • Thirteen weeks of classes • Two in-progress exams, one final exam • Open book • Practice exam prior to first exam • In-progress on 5th and 9th weeks, 20% of grade • Take-home supplementary exam • Final on fifteenth week, 40% of grade • Individually assigned project • Assigned in fifth week • Execute your project in SystemView • 40% of grade • Deductions from final grade • 0.5% for each unexcused absence • 1% for each missed 10 minute Pop Quiz response Study Plan

9. Course Content • EE320 is audited by ABET • Content is defined as part of curriculum • Course as formulated here is part of Temple’s accreditation agreement with ABET • Content is selection of subjects from text • Selection is based on omitting overlap with EE300 • Topics included are selected to support curriculum • EE320 is part of a degree program • Material builds on prerequisites • Material supports follow-on courses Study Plan

10. The Term Project • Continue with the start that you turned in with the first quiz backup • Input • Frequency sweep 1000 Hz to 3500 Hz • Noise to obtain 20 dB SNR • Sampling to obtain good performance • Do NOT pitch your beginning and pick up the ADC to bitstream modules as a template • Sample and encode/decode as instructed • Measure BER vs. Eb/N0 as instructed • Compare hard decoding with soft decoding Study Plan

11. Topics (1 of 2) • Propagation and Noise • Modulation • FDMA • Pulse shading, power spectra, and FDMA • Bit Error Rate • Coding • Information theory, and convolutional codes • Maximum likelihood decoding • Noise performance • TDMA Study Plan

12. Topics (2 of 2) • Spread spectrum • CDMA • Direct-sequence modulation • Spreading codes and orthogonal spreading factors • Gold codes • Code synchronization • Power control • Frequency hopping and spread spectrum • Wireless architectures Study Plan

13. Other Topics • Examples • Antennas • Some elements in Chapter 2 • Basic principles of antenna gain are given • Supports the link budget equations • Spacecraft constellation design – Out of scope of the course • Limitations and prerogatives • EE320 has a lot of topics for 13 weeks – time is tight • Some controlled digression or exposition for context or to supplement the text material is good • Time spent on unplanned material must not push planned topics out of the course Study Plan

14. Scope of the Study Plan • Suggested extra readings • Scope of the topics • Homework problems • Selected for their study value • Chosen to take about 15 minutes apiece • From the Text • Three to five per chapter • Suggested examples from the text Study Plan

15. Coverage of the Study Plan • Text, Chapters 1 through 3 • More will be added as they are needed • Extra topics are available • SystemView examples • Modulation/demodulation Study Plan

16. Feedback and Consultation • Let me know by email whenever you • Are behind in the reading • Have a problem with a study item • Specific issues, please • Good: “I don’t understand Problem 2.1 p. 18” • Good: “I need a little explanation of Example 2.17 pp. 75-76” • Bad: “I don’t understand Chapter 1” • Channels • Email • Simple, one-time issues such as Good above • Anything that is between you and I • Office – Topics that require a conversation, not a single answer or response • Phone – during office hours only; email or visit preferred Study Plan

17. Study Problems Overview • Several are given for each chapter • Pick the easiest first • Some of the longer or more difficult problems are marked as such here – don’t do them first • If you have difficulty with a problem and can’t resolve your problems with the text, put it aside and come back to it later • In the event of difficulty • If an example is given, go through it thoroughly first • Re-read the text sections relating to the problems • Put it aside and come back to it after you work others • If the difficulty persists, send me an email • Emails to the Professor • Give the problem number • State your difficulty as specifically as possible Study Plan

18. Chapter 1 • No homework problems in the text • Look at it for an overview of the text Study Plan

19. Chapter 2 Study Problems • Problem 2.1 p. 18, simple antenna gain equation • Problem 2.5 p. 29, ground path loss, with answer • Example 2.4 and problem 2.6, p. 33, availability • Example 2.7 and Problem 2.9, pp. 43-44, Doppler • Example 2.9, an algebraic representation of multipath • Example 2.14 pp. 67-68, noise figure • Example 2.18 and problem 2.20, pp. 76-77 • Them Example 1 pp. 82-83 Study Plan

20. Chapter 3 Study Problems • Problem 3.1 p. 108, amplitude modulation is nonlinear (what about SSB?) • Problem 3.2 p. 110, a simple illustration of sidebands • Problem 3.3, p. 112, AM sidebands from pulse modulation • Problem 3.4 p. 119, take some time to do a Fourier transform, with answers • Example 3.4 and problem 3.5, pp. 121-122, a comparison of pulse shaping; example was given in class • Problem 3.11 p. 139, find the zeros of SB(f) as given by eq. (3.65) p. 138; answer may be wrong • Problem 3.12, Weiner-Hoph equation; an advanced (difficult) problem • Examine and understand Table 3.4 p. 159, a fundamental topic in bit error rate • Problem 3.17 p. 173, modulation; a long problem – think about how you would work this one with SystemView • Problem 3.30, p. 177, Adjacent channel interference • Problem 3.35 p. 178, look at part (a); part (b) was done in class • Problem 3.36 p. 178, an intermediate difficulty problem in bit error rate using MSK Study Plan

21. Chapter 4 Study Problems • Example 4.1 page 197 • Problem 4.1 page 197 • Problem 4.2 page 198 • Study Haykin & Moher Table 4.3Page 201 and associated text • Problem 4.5 p. 243 • Problems 4.6, 4.7 p. 252 Study Plan

22. Chapter 5 Study Problems • Problem 5.1 p. 262 • Problem 5.2 p. 263 • Problem 5.7 p. 273 • Problem 5.12 p. 290 • Problem 5.15 p. 294 (ref. 5.4.3 RAKE Receiver) • Problem 5.17 p. 299 • Problem 5.19 page 305 • Theme Example 1: IS-95, pp. 311-319 • Theme Example 4: WCDMA pp. 323-328 Study Plan

23. Chapter 7 Study Problems • Problem 7.3 page 477 (Hint: Look at the IS-95 Theme Example, pages 311-319) • Problem 7.6 page 477 (Hint: do a time slot-frequency channel utilization diagram) • Problem 7.7 page 477 Study Plan