Credits: 3
Description
Prerequisite: ENEE381.
Restriction: Must be in one of the following programs (Engineering: Computer; Engineering: Electrical).
Credit only granted for: ENEE490 or ENEE498B.
Formerly: ENEE498B.
Semesters Offered
Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
TestudoLearning Objectives
- Achieve understanding of how Maxwell’s equations, quantum mechanics, general relativity and statistical analysis are basic to understanding the operation of the physical layer in modern communication systems
- Achieve ability to layout a cell-phone systems for an urban area
- Achieve ability to analyze and design antennas and antenna arrays
- Achieve working knowledge of electromagnetic wave propagation models including Friis free space model, the plane earth model and statistical models for propagation in urban areas
- Achieve working knowledge of satellite orbit physics including effect of gravity on clocks in GPS satellites
Topics Covered
- History of wireless communications
- Modern wireless systems including multiple access techniques
- Basic noise concepts, noise sources, noise in specific systems
- Radiation from a Hertzian dipole antenna and a half-wave dipole antenna
- Antenna effective area and aperture antennas
- Co-linear antenna arrays, array directivity
- Microstrip patch antennas
- Some elementary EM wave propagation models
- Diffraction by multiple obstructions
- Models of wave propagation in an urban environment
- Shadowing and statistical design of a cell phone system
- Multipath interference and fast fading
- Wireless LANs
- Tropospheric refraction and ionospheric reflection
- SATCOM fundamentals
- Signal attenuation by atmospheric gases and rain
- Noise in SATCOM and design of GEO SATCOM system
- MEO satellites and GPS systems
- LEO SATCOM systems