Lahore University of Management Sciences

EE574 Digital Wireless Transceiver Design

Spring 2015
Instructor
Room No.
Office Hours
Email
Telephone
Secretary/TA
TA Office Hours
Course URL (if any)

Momin Uppal
9-346A
TBA
momin.uppal@lums.edu.pk
8112
TBA
TBA

Course Basics
Credit Hours
Lecture(s)
Recitation/Lab (per week)
Tutorial (per week)

3
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week
Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week

Course Distribution
Core
Elective
Open for Student Category
Close for Student Category

NA
MS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering
Anyone with the required pre-requisite
Anyone not fulfilling the required pre-requisite

2
0
1

Duration
Duration
Duration

75 minutes
60 minutes

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will cover a detailed design view of various physical-layer building blocks that are essential for building a complete digital transceiver
for wireless communications. The building blocks include modulation, demodulation, carrier frequency and phase offset compensation, timing
synchronization, and equalization, with particular emphasis on discrete-time (digital) realizations. In addition to covering fundamental concepts,
the course content will also present techniques and algorithms typically deployed for efficient system-level operation of the digital transceivers.
The theoretical coverage in the class will be accompanied by detailed computer assignments, that will progressively lead up to the students
implementing their own software-defined baseband digital wireless transceivers. Using software-defined radios (USRPs) available in the lab, the
students will be required to demonstrate the working of their implementation with real-world wireless links.

COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)

EE380 - Communication Systems

Recommended: EE570 - Digital Communications Principles and EE411 - Digital Signal Processing
Sound background in signals and systems, and probability and random variables

Grading Breakup and Policy (Tentative)

Computer Assignment (6-7): 20%
Home Work (3-4): 10%
Quiz(s):
Class Participation:
Attendance:
Midterm Exams : 50% (2)
Project: 20%
Final Exam:

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Examination Detail (Tentative)

Midterm
Exam

Final Exam

Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Duration: 1.5 hours
Preferred Date: See tentative schedule below
Exam Specifications: Open book /Open notes/Calculators Allowed

Yes/No: No
Combine Separate: ---Duration: ---Exam Specifications: ----

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the students should
CLO1
CLO2
CLO3
CLO4
CLO5
CLO6

Be able to design and implement discrete-time realizations of pulse-shaping filters and optimum receivers
Be able to evaluate the effect of received signal distortions such as fading, carrier and timing offsets.
Be able to mathematically describe and analyze channel estimation and equalization methods
Be able to describe, analyze, and implement carrier and timing synchronization methods in digital discrete-time receivers.
Be able to mathematically describe concepts related to digital implementation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
Be able to implement a complete software-defined baseband digital wireless transceiver

Relation to EE Program Outcomes

EE-240
Related PLOs
CLOs
CLO1
PLO1
CLO2
PLO2
CLO3
PLO2
CLO4
PLO3
CLO5
PLO3
CLO6
PLO5

Teaching Methods
Instruction, Homework
Instruction, Homework
Instruction, Homework
Instruction, Homework
Instruction, Homework
Instruction, Homework, Computer Assignments

CLO Attainment checked in

Midterms
Midterms
Midterms
Midterms
Homework
Computer Assignments, Project

Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
Text. Digital Communications: A discrete-time approach by Michael Rice
References

[R1] Digital Communications by Proakis

[R2] Discrete-time Signal Processing by Oppenheim - Third Edition

[R3] Digital Signal Processing, Principles, Algorithms, and Applications by Proakis - Fourth Edition

[R4] Signals and Systems by Oppenheim - Second Edition

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Course Contents and Schedule (Tentative)
Week
1

1-2

3-4

6-7

8-10

11

12-13

14

Topics
Course Overview

Components of a digital communication system

Discrete-time transceiver architectures (Software-defined radios)

Review of discrete-time signals and systems

Discrete-time Fourier Transform

Discrete Fourier Transform

Relationship between continuous and discrete-time signals

(Sampling)

Multi-rate signal processing (upsampling, downsampling,

interpolation)
Linear Modulation, Demodulation, and Detection in Band-limited channels

Phase-shift keying (PSK)/Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)

Pulse-shaping

Signal space representation

Discrete-time realizations

Discrete-time baseband signal models

Optimum receivers
Channel Distortions

Flat-fading and frequency selective fading

Carrier frequency and phase offsets, Doppler shifts

Integer and fractional symbol delays

Discrete-time baseband received signal model under channel

distortions
Mid-term Exam # 1
Channel Estimation

Review of probability theory, random variables, and random

processes

Maximum likelihood estimation

Minimum mean-squared error estimation

Synchronization

Frame synchronization

Data-aided carrier phase and frequency offset (Doppler)

synchronization

Data-aided symbol timing synchronization

Decision-directed synchronization
Equalization

Channel estimation under frequency selective fading

Least-squares equalization

Single-carrier frequency domain equalization

Mid-term Exam # 2
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

Basic concepts

Discrete-time implementation

The cyclic prefix

Channel estimation and carrier synchronization

Advanced Topics

Signal diversity

MIMO wireless communications

Virtual MIMO - Cooperative communications

Computer Assignments

Related CLOs
CLO1

CLO1

CA1: Baseband QPSK

modulation

CLO1, CLO6

CA2: Baseband QPSK

demodulation

CLO2, CLO6

CLO3

CA3: Frame synchronization

CA4: Carrier frequency and
phase synchronization

CLO4, CLO6

CA5: Symbol timing

synchronization

CLO3, CLO6

CA6: Single Carrier

synchronization

CLO5, CLO6

CA7: Experimental evaluation of

the complete single-carrier
transceiver using USRPs

CLO6