UC San Diego | Spring 2024 archive
ECE 257B: Principles of Wireless Communication
Outline
Lecture-by-lecture topics, readings, quizzes, and embedded lecture videos.
How do we sense, communicate and interact with our environment today?
LEC 1: Course Introduction, How to choose your project?
Review: Wireless Communication, Wireless sensing, where are we today in wireless sensing and communication?
LEC 2: Review of how to transmit and receive wireless signals Mapping bits to signal space (modulation), transmitting and receiving, wireless channels review
Assigned Readings: A must read for the class on how to read paper and Thesis on OFDM
LEC 3: Wireless Channel part 2, Why OFDM?
Assigned Readings: Same as previous class
LEC 4: Introduction to OFDM. Nature does linear Convolution but we want it to do Circular Convolution. How?
Assigned Readings: Same as previous class
LEC 5: OFDM Continued. How to solve impairments in Hardware using DSP techniques
Assigned Readings: Same as previous class
Lecture 5 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 6: OFDM continued - Need for Pilots in OFDM. Introduction to MIMO.
Capacity scaling –> MIMO
Optional Readings: Diversity Multiplexing Trade-off
Lecture 6 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 7: MIMO 1: Interference Alignment, Nulling, Interference Nulling, Alignment and Cancellation
Assigned Readings: IAC
Optional Readings: (Chapter 7), NPlus, Random Access Heterogeneous MIMO Networks
Lecture 7 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 8: MIMO 2: Synchronization issues in MIMO and MegaMIMO
Assigned Readings: MegaMIMO
Optional Readings:AirShare, Vidyut,SourceSync
Lecture 8 Reading Quiz: link
Mono-static Sensing and Communication: Space Fourier Transform (Radars and Wireless Sensing, Backscatter Communication)
Lec 9: Fundamentals of Sensing : Space Fourier Transform
Topics covered: transmission and reception of the signal from same radio; model for the environment in the world of wireless; duality of communication and sensing
Lecture 9 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 10: Fundamentals of Sensing : Space Fourier Transform
Assigned Readings: WiTrack
Optional Readings: WiTrack2,WiVi
Lecture 10 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 11: Principles of Wireless Sensing
Lecture 11 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 12: Monostatic Sensing
Assigned Readings: VitalRadio
Optional Readings: RF-Capture, WiSee & EQRadio
LEC 14: Backscatter Communications and Compressed Sensing
Assigned Readings: BUZZ
Optional Readings: Gen2-RFID, DewDrop
Lecture 14 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 15: Compressed Sensing and Super-Resolution
Lecture 15 Reading Quiz: link
Bi-static Sensing and Communication (WiFi based Wireless Sensing and Localization)
LEC 16: Bi-static Localization Basics (CFO and phase)
Assigned Readings: Chronos
Lecture 16 Reading Quiz: link
LEC 17: Wireless Localization (Space expansion)
Assigned Readings: ArrayTrack, Multipath Triangulation
Optional Readings: PinLoc, PinPoint
Lecture 17 Reading Quiz: link
Lec 18: BLE (Bluetooth Low-Energy)
Lecture 18 Reading Quiz: link