This is a course for doctoral students. The focus is on the theoretical foundations of digital communications over wireless channels, with material building on fundamental principles from information theory, communication theory, detection and estimation, and signal processing. A brief outline of the course contents is as follows:

Capacity of wireless channels
Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication
MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modeling
MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures
MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing tradeoff and universal space-time codes
MIMO IV: multiuser communication

The three main topics are 1) channel capacity and information theory for wireless communications; 2) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission; 3) multi-user scenarios.

The course is offered in two versions: The Ph.D. version (Lecture 1-12) is registered as FEO3280 and is worth 12 cu's. The Master-level version (Lecture 1-9) of this course is registered as EQ2460 and is worth 7.5 cu's.

Teachers

Mikael Skoglund (MS)
Lars Kildehøj (LK)
Ragnar Thobaben (RT)

Material

The course is based on the textbook by David Tse and Pramod Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN-10: 0521845270, ISBN-13: 9780521845274

Course Design and Instructions

The course has been redesigned in 2014. In the new design, a typical meeting consists of a lecture (ca. 1h) and a ticking session (ca. 2h). We will work as follows:

Preparation: Before the lectures, the students are obliged to read the reading assignment and to solve the set of homework problems. The solutions to the problems need to be uploaded in Canvas before the meeting.

Lectures: The teachers provide a brief summary of the topic.
Ticking Sessions: At the beginning of each ticking session, every student indicates for which problem he/she is willing to present the solution. Based on the list of indicated problems, the teachers randomly select students for presenting their solutions to the class. The solutions have to be presented freely; only one sheet of paper with the most important intermediate results is allowed. If it is evident that a student is not prepared to present a problem as indicated, all ticks for that session will be erased.

Grading

The grading is based on the lists of indicated problems that are collected during the ticking sessions. For Master students, we apply the following grade scale:

Grade A: Students have been prepared to present the solutions to (at least) 90 % of the problems.
Grade B: Students have been prepared to present the solutions to (at least) 80 % of the problems.
Grade C: Students have been prepared to present the solutions to (at least) 70 % of the problems.
Grade D: Students have been prepared to present the solutions to (at least) 60 % of the problems.
Grade E: Students have been prepared to present the solutions to (at least) 50 % of the problems.
Grade F: Students have not been prepared to present the solutions to (at least) 50 % of the problems.

Ph.D. students need to acquire at least the grade B over the entire duration of the course in order to pass.

Preliminary Schedule and Downloads

All meetings are held at Osquldas väg 10, floor 3 (SIP)

Lecture 1 (Thursday, March 22, 9:30-12:00, SIP)

Topic: Channel capacity, Gaussian channels
Teacher: MS
Reading assignment: Appendix B, Chapters 5.1-3
Downloads: intro.pdf, lec1.pdf, hw1.pdf

Lecture 2 (Thursday, March 29, 9:30-12:00, SIP)

Topic: Channel capacity, fading channels
Teacher: MS
Reading assignment: Chapter 5.4
Downloads: lec2.pdf, hw2.pdf