Wireless Communications: From 5G and WiFi 6 to Low Power IoT Communication (Summer 2020)


Course Description:

The goal of this course is to teach students the fundamentals of wireless communications from basic principles to the current standards for 5G cellular networks, WiFi 6, and Low Power IoT Communication. The course would take a practical systems approach breaking up the technical components of a wireless communication system both in terms analog hardware, digital processing, and software. Students will learn the components of an end to end wireless communication system including: amplifiers, mixers, AGCs, up and down-conversion, pulse shaping, synchronization, modulation, channel equalization, carrier recovery, etc. The course also covers techniques used in the latest communication systems like 5G, WiFi 6 and IoT. These include OFDM, MIMO, Multi-user MIMO, Beamforming, Millimeter Wave, OFDMA, Backscatter communication, Spread Spectrum Communication, Bluetooth, LoRA, etc. The course combines core mathematical principles with practical system design.


Instructor: Haitham Hassanieh

TAs: Jitian Zhang, Junfeng Guan, Sohrab Madani


Reading Material:

  • History of Wireless Communication
  • Introduction of Digital Communication (Lecture Notes)
  • Modulation and Demodulation (Lecture Notes)
  • A Beginner's Guide to OFDM
  • WiFi 6 (802.11ax): A Cheat Sheet
  • WiFi 6: What's Different, and Why it Matters
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  • Everything You Need to Know About 5G
  • 5G and Shannon's Law
  • 5G Commercialization and Trials in Korea
  • Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work!
  • 11 Internet of Things (IoT) Protocols You Need to Know About
  • What are LoRa and LoRaWAN?
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    Schedule:

    All times and dates are listed in China standard time.

    # Date Time Links Lectures
    1 Sun. Jul. 19 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm[Vocabulary]

    [Slides]    		 Lec 1. Introduction:
  • Overview & Logistics
  • Wireless Spectrum
  • Up/Down Conversion
    • Sun. Jul. 19 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Office Hours
    2 Mon. Jul. 20 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm[Slides] Lec 2. Modulation:
  • Types of modulaiton
  • BPSK, DBPSK, ASK, FSK
  • PSK, QAM
  • Maximum Likelihood, BER vs. SNR
    • Mon. Jul. 20 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Office Hours
    3 Tues. Jul. 21 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm [Slides] Lec 3. Wireless Channel:
  • Wireless Channel
  • Channel Equalization
  • Multipath, ISI, & Frequency Selective Fading
  • Pulse Shaping & Matched Filter.
    • Tues. Jul. 21 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Office Hours
    4 Wed. Jul. 22 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm[Slides] Lec 4. OFDM:
  • Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
  • Packet Detection
  • Channel and CFO Estimation
  • Pilots and Phase Tracking
    • Wed. Jul. 22 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Office Hours
    5 Thurs. Jul. 23 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm[Slides] Lec 5. Internet of Things (IoT):
  • LoRa & Chirp Spread Spectrum
  • Narrowband IoT
  • Backscatter Communication
  • Bluetooth, FHSS, DSSS
    • Thurs. Jul. 23 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm Office Hours
    6 Fri. Jul. 24 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm[Slides] Lec 6. 5G & WiFi 6:
  • 5G Background
  • Millimeter wave communication
  • WiFi 6 Background
  • OFDMA
    • 10 Sat. Jul. 26 2:00 pm - 1:59 pm Take home exam (24hrs)