ESTS 40402: Course Description

SYLLABUS: ESTS/STV 40402

1

Aug 23

What is Wireless, and why should we care?
Course Objective & Outline
Telecommunications Timeline

2

Aug 25

Communication Links
Multi-media information sources: Analog and digital
Analog-to-Digital Conversion

3

Aug 30

Modulation & Demodulation
Bandwidth & Spectra

4

Sept 1

Lab. Demo #1. A-to-D conversion, AM & FM

5

Sept 6

Physical properties of wireless channels
The radio spectrum - uses & properties

6

Sept 8

Multiple-access techniques.
Packet radio: packets & protocols

7

Sept 13

Packet transmission & random access protocols
Early telecom: the precursors of wireless

8

Sept 15

Radio days: the first wireless revolution
The new wireless boom: beginnings

9

Sept 20

Cutting the cord: mobile telephony

10

Sept 22

A profile of today’s wireless world

11

Sept 27

Guest Lecture #1 Motorola

12

Sept 29

Mobile Satellite Service
Emerging Wireless Services

13

Oct 4

Lab. Demo #2 Global Positioning System (GPS)

14

Oct 6

Review

15

Oct 11

Lab. Demo #3 Pager

16

Oct 13

Midterm

Topics-semester Break

17

Oct 25

Enhancement Lecture #1

18

Oct 27

Guest Lecture #2 Jim Hunt

19

Nov 1

Enhancement Lecture #2

20

Nov 1

Guest Lecture #3 Dr. Vincent Poor

21

Nov 8

Enhancement Lecture #3

22

Nov 10

Guest Lecture #4 Dr. Roland Chamblee

23

Nov 15

Enhancement Lecture #4

24

Nov 17

Guest Lecture #4 Motorola Business

25

Nov 22

Guest Lecture #5 Dr. Laneman/Dr. Haenggi

26

Nov 24

Guest Lecture #7 TBA

27

Nov 29

Written Test/Guest Lecture #8 TBA

28

Dec 1

Oral Presentation

29

Dec 6

Oral Presentation

* Lecture schedules after mid-semester break (i.e., lectures 17-26) are tentative.