After successful completion of the course, students are able to distinguish between robust and optimum communication systems. The students are able to design and analyze spread-spectrum systems as representative of a robust communication system.
Motivation. Interference reduction in general: Communication environment, Orthogonality, Figure of merits, Complexity, Interference avoidance, Robustness, Reliability, Communication resources, Responsibility. Conventional binary communication system. Spread-Spectrum System. Discrimination between robust systems and systems employing interference reduction. Principles of interference combating: Decorrelation, Interference reversal. Interference reduction techniques: Whitening, Estimating, Transformation, Nonlinearity, Orthogonality. Advanced interference combating techniques: Preventive interference combating for future wireless applications, (Adaptive) nonlinear pre-processing, Cooperative and non-cooperative interference combating. Concluding considerations: Evolution of interference combating techniques, Future of interference combating techniques. Brief literature review. Spread-Spectrum technology in detail (principle, performance, synchronization, RAKE, Code-Division-Multiple-Access (CDMA), multi-carrier CDMA, multi-user detection (MUD), signal design, GPS).
First class: Mon., 4.10.2021, starting at 14:30 sharp.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemia the lecture is presented via zoom-meeting. Invitations are sent via TISS.
The lecture will be held during October and November.