EENG 473 Mobile Communications 

Prof. Mohab Mangoud, (www.mangoud.com), email: mmangoud@uob.edu.bh

Room: S40 – 2087

Lecture hours: MW 

Office hours: H from 1 till 3 pm at my office  or by appointment (feel free to contact me)

 

Course Textbook:

 

T. S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications , Prentice-Hall, 2nd edition, 2002.

 

Course syllabus 

Engineering aspects of mobile systems: multiuser environment, system capacity, concepts of frequency reuse and channel allocation algorithms. Public and private mobile systems, cellular systems, high capacity analogue and digital systems, signaling and protocols issues, vehicle allocation and hand-over techniques. GSM. Mobile satellite systems. Personal communications: microcellular architecture. Implementation of mobility in network protocols. Indoor high speed data networks: radio LANs and WANs and their interconnection.

(Prereq.: EENG 373 & EENG 371)

 

 

Course Grading

Lab Assignments  +HW                   (5%)

Test 1- M                                          (10%)     

Test 2                                               (15%)  

Test 3                                               (15%)  

Course Project                                (15 %)

Final Exam                                       (40%)

  

Timetable and Lectures downloads 

 

Module 1

    

Week(1):  [Feb 9]  Introduction (473-01)


Week(2):
 [Feb 16]  [Feb 23 ] Overview of mobile communications systems (473-02.pdf)

(W : Feb 18= 1st Ramadan 1443) Start of Ramadan working hours)

Week(3): [Mar 2] , [Mar 9]  source coding    (473-03.pdf)

 

Assignment # 1 Submission + Test #1 – MCQ (10%)  Module 1    “W =  11 MARCH ” 

 

Module 2 

 

Week(4):   The cellular concept  (473-04.pdf)

Week(5): The cellular concept (473-05.pdf)

Week(6): [Mar 16] The cellular concept (473-06.pdf)

                                 

Sun 20 March – 24 March  (Eid Alfitr Holiday /End of Ramadan working hours)

Week(7): [ Mar 25]        The cellular concept (473-07.pdf)

Week(8): [Apr 1] The cellular concept (473-08.pdf)                 

Week(9): [Apr 6 ] The cellular concept (473-09.pdf)

Assignment # 2 Submission + Test#2  (15%)  Module 2    “M =  22 Apr ” 

Module 3

Week(10):[Apr 13]  Propagation aspects (fading) { 473-10 }

Week(11): [Apr 20 ] Propagation aspects (fading) {473-11

 

Week(12): [ Apr 27] Large scale fading  {473-12} + Small Scale Fading { 473-13}

Week(13): [May 4 ] Spread Spectrum  / CDMA   {473-14}

Assignment # 3 Submission + Test#3  (15%)  Module 3 & 4   “W =  6 May ” 

Week(14): [ May 11]   Course conclusion and students seminars (Projects)

Last day of Classes      M May 21

Project (15 %)  Theme of this semester projects :  5G & IoT Applications 

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Reading Assignments topics 

  • 6G
  • MIMO technology
  • Cognitive Radio
  • Beamforming and precoding
  • Millimeter waves
  • IOT
  • V2X
  • Smart Cities Application
  • Spectrum management