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IMPORTANT:
The general formula for contact hours is as follows:
Courses must meet for a minimum of one 50 minute session per unit
per week over a fifteen-week semester. Standard fall and spring
sessions require a final summative experience during the University
scheduled final exam day and time.

(Please refer to the Contact Hours Reference, located at

arr.usc.edu/services/curriculum/resources.html.)

Location: TBD

Instructor: Andreas F. Molisch

Office: EEB 530
Office Hours: Mo, We, 5pm-6h30 pm
Contact Info: 213 740 4670, [email protected]. Emails and
phone messages will be typically answered within 48 hours, but
no later than by the next office hours.

Teaching Assistant: TBD

Office: Physical or virtual address
Office Hours:
Contact Info: Email, phone number (office, cell), Skype, etc.

Revised July 2016

Course Description
This course provides the basics for the design and analysis of wireless communications systems. It covers
aspects ranging from the wireless propagation channel, digital communications theory, coding, to multiple
access methods, frequency planning, and wireless standards. The course not only provides the individual
pieces for understanding and designing such systems, but also stresses a holistic system view and shows
how the different pieces are connected. The ultimate goal of this course is to give students the ability to
take a practically occurring problem (e.g., provide a given number of users, with a prescribed reliability with
a data rate of x Mbit/s), recognize the different challenges to achieve the desired results, and design and
analyze systems that meet the performance goals.

Learning Objectives
The aim is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge for a career in companies producing
wireless infrastructure, cellphones, Internet-of-Things devices, wireless healthcare, etc. The course not only
provides the individual pieces for understanding and designing such systems, but also stresses a holistic
system view and shows how the different pieces are connected. In particular students shall learn: (i) basic
properties of wireless propagation channels, such as fading, delay dispersion, Doppler spread; (ii) learn the
basics of digital communications systems such as modulation format, signal space diagram, BER analysis and
how they apply specifically to wireless systems, (iii) methods to overcome the challenges of wireless
channels such as diversity, equalizers, and coding, (iv) multiple-access and multi-cell methods, i.e., ability of
multiple devices to access infrastructure simultaneously, (v) analysis of current wireless standards, in
particular 5G, (vi) survey of cutting edge wireless technology for 5G and 6G, such as millimeter-wave
systems, high-speed fixed wireless access, generalized OFDM, and NOMA.
.

Prerequisite(s): EE 503, EE 510

Co-Requisite(s): EE 511
Concurrent Enrollment: N/A
Recommended Preparation: basic electromagnetic theory, digital communications
systems.

Course registration
The nominal course credit given in the schedule of classes is 3.0 Participants of the course should register
also for a 1 unit Directed Research EE 590 under supervision of Prof. Molisch, at myviterbi.usc.edu. In the
description box they can indicate “additional unit for EE 535”; they will then be given D clearance so they
can register.

Students will receive 3 units of graded course work and 1 unit of non-graded course work, since EE 590 is
graded CR/NC. That means a student will NOT receive 4 units of A. If they receive a C or better in EE 535,
the will get a CR (Credit) in EE 590. If a student gets a C- or below in EE 535, they will receive NC (no credit)
in EE 590. Students having issues with registering for a DR unit should consult a student advisor for a
possible exception. However, the work required for EE 535 will correspond to a 4-unit course irrespective of
whether DR is registered or not.

Course Notes
The course will use a combination of an available textbook (by the instructor) and instructor-written notes
to provide updates and emphasize current developments. Presentation slides (PPT) will be used in some of
the lectures, and made available to the students.

Technological Proficiency and Hardware/Software Required

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MATLAB required for some exercises.

Required Readings and Supplementary Materials

Mandatory reading: chapters/sections from
A. F. Molisch, Wireless Communications, 2nd ed., Wiley – IEEE Press.
Available at USC Bookstore, Amazon, from the publisher
Additional instructor-written handouts as needed.

Additional reading material:

1. S. Benedetto & E. Biglieri, Principles of Digital Transmission - With Wireless Applications ,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Amsterdam 1999.
2. D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge
University Press, 2005.
3. Andrea Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Description and Assessment of Assignments

1) Reading assignments: students are required to read specific sections in the textbook before each
lecture, to enable a teaching style somewhat similar to a “flipped classroom”, i.e., concentrating on
the intuitive understanding of the material, computational problems, etc., instead of derivations of
equations.
2) Weekly homeworks will be assigned, falling mainly into three categories
a. Computational exercises related to the specific chapters treated during the past
instruction week.
b. Computational exercises requiring a “big picture” approach, using material from different
lectures throughout the semester
c. MATLAB simulations to be written by the students to cover more realistic scenarios for
which closed-form equations often do not exist.
3) Midterms and finals

Grading Breakdown
Including the above detailed assignments, how will students be graded overall? Participation should be no
more than 15%, unless justified for a higher amount. All must total 100%.

Grading Scale (Example)

Course final grades will be determined by grading on a curve

Assignment Rubrics
Include assignment rubrics to be used, if any.

Assignment Submission Policy

• Late Policy: No late homework will be accepted. A late assignment results in a zero grade.

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 • Make-up Exams: No make-up exams will be given. If you cannot make the exam dates
due to a class conflict, you must notify me by the last day to add/drop a course. If I cannot
accommodate your schedule, you must drop the class. In the case of a required business
trip or a medical emergency, a signed letter from your manager or doctor is required. This
letter must include the telephone number of your doctor or supervisor.
• Grade Adjustment: If you dispute any scoring of a problem on an exam or homework set,
you have one week from the date that the graded paper is returned to request a change in
the grade. After this time, no further alterations will be considered. All requests for a
change in grade must be submitted in writing to me.
• Changes/Information: The student is responsible for all assignments, changes of
assignments, announcements, lecture notes etc. All such changes should be posted on the
course web-site.
• Other: As per university guidelines published in SCampus, the academic conduct policy
will be upheld. You are required to study http://ee.usc.edu/sacss/ and the material linked
there. Every homework has to contain a cover sheet in which collaborations and auxiliary
material are declared. False declarations are a violation of academic integrity.

Grading Timeline
Homework will be corrected within 1 week of submission and returned to the students. Results can be
discussed during the office hours with the TA or instructor.

Additional Policies
Students are required to read the assigned chapters before class.

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Course Schedule: A Weekly Breakdown
Provide a detailed course calendar that provides a thorough list of deliverables—readings, assignments,
examinations, etc., broken down on at least a weekly basis. The format may vary, but the content must
include:
• Subject matter (topic) or activity
• Required preparatory reading, or other assignments (i.e., viewing videos) for each class
session, including page numbers.
• Assignments or deliverables.

IMPORTANT:
In addition to in-class contact hours, all courses must also meet a minimum standard for out-of-
class time, which accounts for time students spend on homework, readings, writing, and other
academic activities. For each unit of in-class contact time, the university expects two hours of
out of class student work per week over a semester.

(Please refer to the Contact Hours Reference at arr.usc.edu/services/curriculum/resources.html.)

Topics/Daily Activities Readings and Homework Deliverable/ Due Dates

Week 1 Fundamental system Readings: Chapters 1,2,
requirements and handouts for modern (5G)
challenges requirements
Week 2 Fundamental Readings: Chapter 3,4 Solved homeworks: beginning of
propagation effects. Homework1: computational Week 4 (henceforth written as
Link budgets exercises including MATLAB BW4)
(henceforth CEM)
Week 3 Basics of digital signal Readings: Chapter 11 Solved homeworks: BW5
processing and Homework 2: CEM
modulation formats
Week 4 Demodulation, signal Readings: Chapter 12.1- Solved homeworks: BW6
space diagram 12.2; handouts on
Hardware structure of hardware structure
digital transceivers and Homework 3: CEM
impact on system
performance

Week 5 Fading, time variations in Reading: Chapter 5, Solve homeworks: BW 7

mobile and FWA handouts on FWA systems
systems, shadowing Homework 4: CEM
Week 6 BER in fading channels Reading: Chapter 12.2, Solve homeworks: BW 8
Delay dispersion, Chapter 6.1-6.3, 12.3, 16
equalizers Homework 5: CEM
Week 7 OFDM Reading: Chapter 19 Midterms
Midterms No homework
Week 8 Diversity Reading: Chapter 13 Solve homework: BW10
Homework 6: CEM
Week 9 Antenna arrays, MIMO Reading: Chapter 20 Solve homework: BW11
Homework 7: CEM
Week 10 Multiple access and Reading: Chapter 17. Solve homework: BW12
multi-cell handouts
Information theory for Homework 8: CEM
wireless

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 Week 11 Scheduling for speech, Reading: handouts Solve homework: BW13
data, and video Homework 9: CEM
streaming
Week 12 CDMA, multiuser Reading: chapter 18 and Solve homework: BW14
detection, and NOMA handouts
Homework 10: CEM
Week 13 SDMA and massive Reading: Chapter 20.3 and Project: due end of week 15
MIMO handouts
Project (in groups):
programming in MATLAB of
small wireless system
Week 14 LTE Reading: chapter 28 and
handouts
Week 15 5G systems Reading: handouts

FINAL Date: For the date and time of the

final for this class, consult the USC
Schedule of Classes at
www.usc.edu/soc.
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Academic Conduct:
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