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Array Processing for Wireless Communications



ECE 8782

Course Description

Sensor array processing; Fourier-based, maximum likelihood, and high resolution angle of arrival estimation methods, narrowband and broadband array signal processing, coherent interference nulling and multipath problems, robust and constrained adaptive beamforming; smart antenna systems for cellular communications; switched beam antennas, spatial diversity, and fully adaptive antennas for improved coverage and range; uplink processing; low and high rank propagation channel models; spatial and temporal information for improved frequency reuse; CMA array, subspace methods, and blind equalization.

Prerequisites

Course Outline

  • Introduction
  • A spatial perspective for mobile communications
  • Modeling of communication channels
  • Diversity techniques
  • Channel estimation
  • Adaptive nulling techniques and robust beamforming
  • High resolution array processing
  • Blind equalizations
  • Rake receivers
  • Joint-angle delay estimation
  • Space-time processing
  • MIMO and Space-time coding