ECTS - Wireless Communications
Wireless Communications (EE402) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| Wireless Communications | EE402 | Area Elective | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| EE316 |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Demonstration, Problem Solving, Team/Group. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | The aim of this course is to provide a background for wireless principles and techniques. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Introduction to wireless systems and standards, radio propagation effects, coverage and statistical channel modeling, time-varying channels, fading effects, various bandpass modulation schemes and detection systems, channel capacity, spread spectrum communications, diversity and combining in cellular systems. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to wireless communication systems, current wireless systems and standars, wireless spectrum-1 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 2 | Introduction to wireless communication systems, current wireless systems and standars, wireless spectrum-2 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 3 | Introduction to wireless communication systems, current wireless systems and standars, wireless spectrum-3 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 4 | Radio propagation effects, path loss and shadowing, ray tracing, outage probability, cell coverage-1 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 5 | Radio propagation effects, path loss and shadowing, ray tracing, outage probability, cell coverage-2 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 6 | Radio propagation effects, path loss and shadowing, ray tracing, outage probability, cell coverage-3 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 7 | Midterm examination-1 | Study the lecture notes |
| 8 | Cellular systems, cell planning, interference effects on capacity, dynamic resource allocation-1 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 9 | Cellular systems, cell planning, interference effects on capacity, dynamic resource allocation-2 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 10 | Midterm examination-2 | Study the lecture notes |
| 11 | Wireless channel capacity, AWGN channels, flat-fading and frequency selective channels-1 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 12 | Wireless channel capacity, AWGN channels, flat-fading and frequency selective channels-2 | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 13 | Statistical channel modeling, time-varying channel responses, narrowband and wideband channels, space-time channel models | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 14 | Digital modulations, signal space analysis, receiver structures, speread spectrum techniques, diversity techniques | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 15 | Review of topics | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
| 16 | Final examination period | Please, download the lecture notes and review them before the lesson |
Sources
| Course Book | 1. Haykin, S. and Moher, M., Modern Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall, 2005. |
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| Other Sources | 2. Goldsmith, A., Wireless Communications, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2005. |
| 3. Couch, L.W, Digital and Analog Communicatin Systems, 7th ed., Prentice Hall, 2007. |
Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | - | - |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | 10 | 20 |
| Homework Assignments | - | - |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 50 |
| Toplam | 12 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 70 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 30 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| Major Area Courses | |
| Supportive Courses | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | |
| Transferable Skill Courses |
The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications
| # | Program Qualifications / Competencies | Level of Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. | X | ||||
| 2 | Implementing long-term research and development studies in major areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | X | ||||
| 3 | Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. | X | ||||
| 4 | Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship. | |||||
| 5 | Ability to report and present research results effectively. | |||||
| 6 | Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology. | |||||
| 7 | An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. | |||||
| 8 | Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English. | |||||
| 9 | Increasing the performance on project management. | |||||
| 10 | Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||