EC552: Modern Wireless Communications

Dr. Mohab Mangoud (Email: mangoud@aast.edu) Room 245

Eng. Heba Shaban (e.mail: hshaban@aast.edu) Room:425 (4th floor)

 

Grading system

oMatlab assignments + Home works (20%)
oMid-term Exam “7th week” (20%)
oClass Project (30%)
oFinal Exam (30%)
o

  

Course syllabus
 
  1. 1.Introduction to Digital Wireless RF Communications, Historical background, Frequency allocations.
  2. 2.Examples of wireless and Personal communications Systems
  3. 3.Wireless system components
  4. 4.Source coding, channel coding, interleaving, Digital modulation techniques for Mobile Radio
  5. 5.Basic Concepts in Radio wave Propagation, Path loss, Multipath, fading and shadowing effects
  6. 6.Fundamentals of spread spectrum
  7. 7.Code Division Multiple Access technique
  8. 8.Frequency Hopping technique
  9. 9.Students Seminars
 

Timetable and Lectures downloads

Lecture(1) 9/20/2006 Course introduction + Overview of wireless communication systems  (download)    
Lecture(2) 9/27/2006 Overview of wireless communication systems(2)  
Lecture(3) 10/4/2006 Overview of wireless communication systems(3)

last day to submit project proposal

  
Lecture(4) 10/11/2006 Overview of cellular mobile communication systems

last day to submit the modified project proposal

 (download)    
Lecture(5) 10/18/2006 Wireless system components and Source coding, (download)    

 
Lecture(6) 11/1/2006  Digital modulation techniques for Mobile Radio

last day to turn in [HW1] 

 part 1 (download)   

part 2 (download)   
Lecture(7) 11/8/2006 Spread Spectrum and DS-CDMA (download)  
    Midterm Exam sample (download)
Lecture(8) 11/15/2006 Orthognal codes and DS-CDMA (download)  
Lecture(9) 11/22/2006 PN sequences for DS-CDMA (download)  
Lecture(10) 11/29/2006 Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum Technique and Bluetooth  (download)  
Lecture(11) 12/6/2006 Multipath channels and Fading in wireless system   (download)
Lecture(12) 12/13/2006 Multipath channels and Fading in wireless system  
Lecture(13) 12/20/2006

Students' seminars

  
Lecture(14) 12/27/2006

Students' seminars

  
Lecture(15) 01/03/200

Final Exam

  

Lab Resources

Simulink Help files [1] (download) [2] (download) [3] (download)  

 

Seminars schedule:

 
Project Title

Student Name

 Seminar Date
Satellite Communication systems

رامي محمد محمود محمد معروف

 12/13/2006
Wireless Networking (Rappaport)

محمد شريف وحيد الدين أحمد 

 12/13/2006
4G Cellular Systems محمد مدحت بهاء الدين نشأت  12/13/2006
RFID نيهال محمود مصطفى حشيش              12/13/2006
GSM وليد صبري عبد الحميد رزق            12/13/2006
Wireless adhoc Network احمد عبدالمنعم كامل محمد ربيع 12/20/2006
WIFI  محمد عزت محمد حسين 12/20/2006
802.11n/OFDM محمد عزيز محمد صدقي  12/20/2006
WLAN (Rappaport) مصطفى محمد عبدة عبد الله  12/20/2006
Inter Satellite Link أرساني صبري جورج مسيحة 12/20/2006
GPS رنا فخرى مصطفى عبدالرحمن 12/20/2006
Wireless sensor Network عمر محمد عبدالعزيز محمد عرفة  12/20/2006
Wireless Mesh Networks محمد مجدي مصطفى رشدى صالح  12/20/2006
Introduction to UWB مروه محمد محمود السيد  12/27/2006
WiMax احمد عثمان علي السرير 12/27/2006
Fading Channel رامي عبد الحكم إبراهيم البنا  12/27/2006
Wireless Voice Servicies زياد سعيد احمد ابوعلى  12/27/2006
WIFI حمدى محمد قطب بلال 12/27/2006
VOWIFI دينا حسام حسن الصوة  12/27/2006
Speech Coding شادي احمد شريف السيد محمود 12/27/2006
Wireless USB محمد عبدالكريم محمد رفاعى 12/27/2006
Cellular Network (Rappaport) محمد قطب محمود قطب   12/27/2006
WIFI SEC مروان محمد محمود شعبان  12/27/2006
WLAN Security مينا جورج ابادير عبدالملاك   12/13/2006

Lab Exam: (take home exam) 10% of the total course grad

1) Download the exam (use the given password) Final lab exam

2) Submit a written report on wed. 27 Dec. 2006.

3)  honer code of the course will be applied to this exam.

Honor code: It is your personal/own understanding only that should be reflected in the projects you turn in.

 You may thus claim credit only for your own work. All graded work is covered by the Honor Code; violations will be prosecuted.

 

 

 

  Wireless Communications Research Labs & other links

 

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