EENG 473: Mobile Communications

 

 

Dr. Mohab Mangoud, (www.mangoud.com), email: mmangoud@uob.edu.bh

Room: 14-226

Lecture hours: UTH

Office hours: W - H from 2 till 3 pm at my office  or by appointment (feel free to contact me)

 

Course Textbook:


T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications , Prentice-Hall, 2nd edition, 2002.



Course syllabus


Engineering aspects of mobile systems: multiuser environment, system capacity, concepts of frequency reuse and channel allocation algorithms. Public and private mobile systems, cellular systems, high capacity analogue and digital systems, signaling and protocols issues, vehicle allocation and hand-over techniques. GSM. Mobile satellite systems. Personal communications: microcellular architecture. Implementation of mobility in network protocols. Indoor high speed data networks: radio LANs and WANs and their interconnection. (Prereq.: EENG 373 & EENG 371)


 

Course Grading

Lab Assignments  +HW                    (5%)

Test 1- M                                          (10%)    

Test 2                                               (15%)  

Test 3                                               (15%) 

Course Project + presentation          (15 %)

Final Exam                                        (40%)

 



Timetable and Lectures downloads


Module 1

   

Week(1):  [Feb 17 ]  Introduction (473-01.pdf)

Week(2): [Feb 24]  Overview of mobile communications systems (473-02.pdf)

Week(3): [Mar 2 ]  source coding    (473-03.pdf)


Test #1 (MCQ)


Module 2


Week(4): [March 9]  The cellular concept  (473-04.pdf)

Week(5): [March 16] The cellular concept (473-05.pdf)

Week(6): [March 23] The cellular concept (473-06.pdf)

                                   The cellular concept (473-07.pdf)

Week(7): [Mar 30]     The cellular concept (473-08.pdf)

                                    The cellular concept (473-09.pdf)



TEST # 2  (15%)  Module 2

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[5-9 April]  Mid semester Break

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Module 3

Week(8): [April 13 ]   Propagation aspects (fading) (473-10.ppt)

Week(9): [April 20 ]   Propagation aspects (fading) (473-10.ppt)

Week(10):[ April 27]   Large scale fading (473-11.pdf)

Week(11): [May 4]    Small Scale Fading (473-12.pdf)



TEST # 3  (15%)  Module 3 :      May 6th


Module 4


Week(12): [May 11] Spread Spectrum

Week(13): [May 18]  CDMA I  (20%) (473-13.pdf)

Week(14): [May 25]  CDMA II (473-14.pdf) ,  

                     Course conclusion and students seminars (Projects)



Project (15 %)  Theme of this semester projects :  5G & IoT Applications


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Reading Assignments topics


- Massive MIMO , Cognitive Radio , Beamforming and precoding , Millimeter waves , IOT & 5G