GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS/5841306
Course Title: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  English
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To learn the concurrent wireless communication systems, understand the wireless channel models
Perform capacity and quality analysis over wireless channels, learn the techniques used for high speed and high reliability in wireless communications
Learn diversity, channel equalization and channel coding techniques.
understand the fundamentals of MIMO, OFDM, spread-spectrum, multiple-access and cellular wireless communication systems.

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  Lecture
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Overview of concurrent wireless commuication systems and technical issues, wireless spectrum and standards
2. Week  Path loss and shadowing models used, statistical multipath fading channel models
3. Week  statistical multipath fading channel models
4. Week  Capacity of wireless communication channels
5. Week  Performance analysis of digital modulations over wireless channels
6. Week  Diversity techniques
7. Week  Channel equalization for wireless channels
8. Week  Channel coding for wireless communications
9. Week  MİDTERM
10. Week  MIMO communications
11. Week  OFDM
12. Week  Spread-spectrum communications
13. Week  Multiuser radio communications
14. Week  Project presentations
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
30
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
1
20
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
15
5
75
 Searching in Internet and Library
15
2
30
 Material Design and Implementation
0
0
0
 Report Preparing
0
0
0
 Preparing a Presentation
2
5
10
 Presentation
1
1
1
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
2
10
20
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
2
10
20
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
0
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
198
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.92
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5
6
7
8X
9
10
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assist. prof. Dr. Özgür Ertuğ)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (w3.gazi.edu.tr/~ertug)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (ertug@gazi.edu.tr)