EENG 473 Mobile Communications 

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

Room: S40 – 2111

Lecture hours: MW @ 11:00 -12:15

Office hours: H from 1 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):  [Sept 9]  Introduction (473-01)

Week(2): [Sept 16]  Overview of mobile communications systems (473-02.pdf)

Week(3): [Sept 23 ]  source coding    (473-03.pdf)

 

Assignment # 1 Submission + Test #1 – MCQ (10%)  Module 1    “W =  25 Sept ” 

 

Module 2 

 

Week(4): [Sept 30 ]  The cellular concept  (473-04.pdf)

Week(5): [Oct 7] The cellular concept (473-05.pdf)

Week(6): [Oct 14] The cellular concept (473-06.pdf)

                                   The cellular concept (473-07.pdf)

Week(7): [Oct 21]      

Week(8): [Oct 21 ]  

Week(9): [Nov 4 ]   

Week(10):[ Nov 4]  The cellular concept (473-08.pdf)                                    

 

Week(11): [Nov 11] The cellular concept (473-09.pdf)

 

 

Assignment # 2 Submission + Test#2  (15%)  Module 2    “W =  20 Nov ” 

 

Module 3

 Propagation aspects (fading) (473-10.ppt)

Propagation aspects (fading) (473-10.ppt)

Large scale fading (473-11.pdf)

 Small Scale Fading (473-12.pdf)

 

 

Module 4 

 

Week(12): [Nov 18]  Spread Spectrum

Week(13): [Nov 25] CDMA I  (20%) (473-13.pdf

Week(14): [Dec. 2 ]  CDMA II (473-14.pdf) ,   

                     Course conclusion and students seminars (Projects)

 

Assignment # 3 Submission + Test#3  (15%)  Module 3 & 4   “W =  11 Dec ” 

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 

–  V2X 

– Smart Cities Applications

– Beyond 5G