Lahore University of Management Sciences

EE 574 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 applications. 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)

Enforced: EE570 - Digital Communications Principles

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

COURSE OBJECTIVES

To understand the effect of received signal distortions such as fading as well as carrier and timing offsets.
To gain an understanding of ways of achieving carrier and timing synchronization.
To gain an understanding of channel estimation and equalization.
To gain an understanding of the digital implementation of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
To build a complete software-defined baseband digital wireless transceiver

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Grading Breakup and Policy (Tentative)
Computer Assignment(s): 20%
Home Work: 10%
Quiz(s):
Class Participation:
Attendance:
Midterm Exams : 50% (2)
Project: 20%
Final Exam:

Examination Detail (Tentative)

Midterm
Exam

Final Exam

Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Duration: 3 hours
Preferred Date: During the Midweek
Exam Specifications: Closed book closed notes/Calculators Allowed

Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combined
Duration: 3 hours
Exam Specifications: Closed book closed notes/Calculators Allowed/ Two help sheets Allowed

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

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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

CA1: Baseband QAM modulation

CA2: Baseband QAM demodulation

CA3: Frame synchronization

CA4: Carrier frequency and phase
synchronization

CA5: Symbol timing synchronization

CA6: Single Carrier synchronization

CA7: Experimental evaluation of the

complete single-carrier transceiver
using USRPs