WNCG to Offer Short Courses

The Wireless Networking and Communications Group has several faculty that offer short courses.

Below follow a preliminary list of the proposed course offerings:

4 hours to 8 hours

In this course I cover point to point MIMO capacity analysis, and that of uplink and downlink MIMO channels. Talk about dirty paper coding, optimal resource allocation, duality, constrained duality, MIMO access and cellular MIMO

Day 1
1. An Introduction to WiMAX and Wireless Broadband, history and business challenges
2. Broadband Wireless Systems
3. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Multiple Access (OFDMA)
4. Multiple Antenna Techniques and their application in WiMAX
5. WiMAX vs Competing Technologies (LTE and HSDPA)

Day 2
1. Physical Layer of WiMAX: Coding, Modulation, Ranging and Channel
2. Estimation, MIMO, System and Link Level Performance
3. MAC Layer of WiMAX: PDU Processing, Scanning, Mobility Management, Network Entry
4. WiMAX Network Architecture and Operation

2 Day Short Course (may be modified from 1 to 3 days)

Syllabus (emphasis may be modified by audience with advance notice):

1. Historical and technical evolution of cellular, WiFi, WiMax and RFID
2. Cellular System Design, WiFi/Hot Spot RF Design
3. Radio Wave Propagation, Path Loss, Doppler antennas; macro/micro/indoor wireless
4. Modulation, Spectrum Efficiency, and Error Control Coding for wireless systems
5. MiMo and Antenna Diversity
6. Speech Coding, Image coding, web browsing, video transmission standards
7. Multiple Access Techniques: CDMA, OFDMA, TDMA, FDMA
8. Wireless Systems and Standards: LTE, WiMax, WiFi, UWB, 700 MHz MediaFlo/DVB-H, Bluetooth, RFID
9. Late breaking FCC and worldwide regulatory changes, proposals, standards activities
   

2 Day Short course (may be modified from 1 to 3 days)

Syllabus (emphasis may be modified by audience with advance notice):

1. Overview of Diversity techniques – fundamentals
2. Overview of Radio Wave Propagation for various physical environments
3. Spatial Diversity –macrocell/microcell/femtocell
4. Frequency Diversity – macrocell/microcell/femtocell
5. Angle Diversity-macrocell/microcell/femtocell
6. Time Diversity – macrocell/microcell/femtocell
7. Overview of Antenna and Signal combining methods
8. Antenna Selection Combining
9. Maximal Ratio Combining
10. Equal Gain Combining
11. Space-Time Channels and antenna schemes
12. SIMO and MIMO Channels
13. MIMO techniques and recent results
14. Commercial implementation of Antenna Diversity
15. Measurement techniques and results for various environments

Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr., building on his
experience as a co-author of more than 150 conference and journal
papers on MIMO wireless communication, 12 patents, and several
standards contributions, teaches an introduction to MIMO communication
based on his forthcoming MIMO book.

5 days (1/2/3/4/5 day courses also possible)

This course provides an introduction to MIMO Wireless
Communication covering core topics, advance topics, and a summary of
MIMO in different wireless communication standards. The nominal course
is 5 days but can be customized based on interest. An outline of topics
is as follows. For more details and other courses see
http://www.mimowireless.com/shortcourses/

1. Introduction to space-time communication
2. MIMO Signal Processing Fundamentals: the MIMO discrete-time signal model, MIMO linear equalization, single carrier frequency domain equalization, MIMO-OFDM, least squares channel estimation
3. MIMO Channel Models: review of channel modeling principles, classification of models, models used in standards
4. MIMO Information Theory: capacity with channel state information at the transmitter and receiver, ergodic capacity, summary of recent capacity results.
5. MIMO Communication Theory: maximum likelihood detection and probability of codeword error, diversity analysis using the pairwise error probability, bit interleaved coded modulation
6. Spatial Multiplexing: linear receivers, nonlinear receivers, linear precoding
7. Space-Time Block Coding: the Alamouti code and orthogonal designs, quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes and full-rate space-time codes.
8. Single user limited feedback precoding: limited feedback precoding, codebook design, multi-mode feedback, extensions to MIMO-OFDM
9. Multiuser information theory: MIMO broadcast and MAC channels
10. Multiuser MIMO algorithms: linear and nonlinear precoding, scheduling considerations
11. Multiuser limited feedback: codebook scaling results, scheduling considerations
12. MIMO networking: summary of recent MIMO networking results including ad hoc networks and the MIMO relay channel
13. Link adaptation: slow and fast link adaptation
14. MIMO antenna design: design criteria and summary of existing designs
15. Basic description of standards and overview of MIMO features in IEEE 802.11n, IEEE 802.16e, and 3GPP LTE.

Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr., building on his
experience  in multi-hop networks and relaying, teaches an introduction
to IEEE 802.16j while providing additional background on multi-hop
relaying for cellular systems. An outline of topics is as follows. For
more details and other courses see
http://www.mimowireless.com/shortcourses/

1 day (1/2 day and 2 day options also available)

1. Introduction
2. IEEE 802.16e/Mobile WiMAX Overview: history, PHY, MAC, and current status
3. Theory of Relaying: history, information theoretic considerations, relay operations, MIMO relaying, state-of-the-art
4. A Top Level View of 16j: usage scenarios, external constraints, network architecture
5. IEEE 802.16j PHY: frame structure, transparent and non-transparent relaying, synchronization, relay grouping, modulation and coding schemes, pilot monitoring, ranging, cooperation, power control
6. IEEE 802.16j MAC: Tuneling, relay MAC PDUs, R-MAP, HARQ, QoS, routing and path management, network entry, bandwidth allocation, scheduling, flow control, multi-cast and broadcast, grouping, security architecture
7. Outlook for IEEE 802.16j: status of current standard, incorporation into WiMAX profiles, challenges faced by IEEE 802.16m