Course Description

I am very excited to be teaching EL6023, “Wireless Communications“, a very important core course and I look forward to having you in class!

I encourage students to buy the books early, and begin reading *before* our first day of class. I will hold weekly office hours, we will work lots of problems, and if needed we will hold extra office hours, and we will have TAs to help everyone master the material, but you will have to work hard. This is a challenging and rigorous class; come prepared to work and to learn this wonderful field!

Class Information
Introduction to fundamental aspects of wireless communications. Cellular system design, channel modeling, radio propagation, cellular concepts, fading and multipath countermeasures (equalization, diversity, channel coding), spread spectrum, and basic multiple access techniques.

This course covers the fundamentals of wireless communications including statistical descriptions of the wireless channel (path loss models, large-scale and small-scale fading), digital communication over fading channels (channel estimation, receiver design and performance, Shannon theory of time-varying channels, channel coding, diversity and related MAC-layer concepts), introduction to cellular systems and multiple access (frequency reuse, OFDM, CDMA, capacity analysis and basics of multiuser information theory) and MIMO communication. Examples will be provided from state-of-the-art cellular and wireless LAN standards.

Course Prerequisite
All students enrolling in this course must have first completed the required prerequisite, Digital Communications (EL-GY 6013).

I urge all students to also attend the 8 lectures to be held this semester on the topic of: Circuits: Terahertz and Beyond, as this material will be part of the course.  See this link:

https://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/departments/electrical-and-computer-engineering/ece-seminar-series/circuits-terahertz-thz

All students should be well-versed in the use of MATLAB.

Course Grading:

• Homeworks 15%-Always due before class
• Quizzes 10%-Always at the start of the class
• Exam 1 (75 minutes in class) 25%
• Exam 2 (75 minutes in class) 25%
• Final project with presentation in class  25%

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• Preproposal due Sept. 19, 2018 (10% of the project)
• Final proposal due Oct. 10, 2018 (20% of the project)
• Final project report due on Final Exam date (50% of the project)
• 18 minute Final project presentation- Dec. 12, 2018 (20% of the project)

Office Hour:

My office hour for the class shall be Wednesday’s: 2 – 2:30 pm and 6-7 pm on the 9th floor, 2 MTC, Brooklyn, and by appointment and phone at other times that work well for both of us.

Our course GTA shall be Yunchou Xing, a Ph.D. student in NYU WIRELESS, and his email is: yx775 at nyu dot edu

GTA’s office hour is: Tuesday morning from 9:30-10:30 am and Wednesday morning from 9:30-10:30 am on Cube 9.120H, 9th floor, 2 MTC, Brooklyn.

I am very pleased to have you in the class! Ted

Required Reading:

1. T.S. Rappaport, “Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice”, c. 2002 Pearson/Prentice Hall (hardback for proper problems)
2. T.S. Rappaport, et. al.  “Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications “ c. 2015, Pearson/ Prentice Hall (hardback for proper edits)

Instructor 
Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport 
tsr at nyu dot edu
Office: 9.103, 2 MetroTech 9th Floor