Multicarrier Communications, Advanced coursework ENGN8637, ANU, Semester 2, 2007
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Course Outline:
1. OFDM Systems
1.1. History and OFDM Basics
1.2. Advanced Receiver Design: Packet detection, Timing, CFO Estimation and Compensation, Channel Estimation and Tracking
1.3. RF Distortion and Compensation: PAPR Problem, Doppler effects, Phase noise, I/Q Imbalance, Phase noise, Sampling error
1.4. Coded OFDM Systems
2. Generalized Multicarrier Systems
2.1. Precoding OFDM Systems
2.2. Multicarrier + CDMA Systems
2.3. SC-FDE Systems
2.4. Asymmetric OFDM Systems
3. MIMO OFDM Systems
3.1. Introduction to MIMO Systems
3.2. MIMO OFDM system structure
3.3 Capacity Analysis
3.4. Space-frequency Coding
3.5 Receiver Implementations
3.6. Beamforming for MIMO-OFDM
4. OFDMA Systems
4.1. OFDMA Basics
4.2 OFDMA Synchronization: Practical mechanisms and Advanced signal processing
4.2. Cross-layer Design: Multiuser Diversity and Mobility-dependent Traffic Channels
4.3. Multi-cell Frequency Planning
5. Resource Optimization
5.1 Water-filling Principle
5.2 Bit and power loading Algorithms: Rate-adaptive and Margin-adaptive algorithms
5.3 Multiuser diversity and bit loading in OFDMA
5.4 Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC)
6. Practical OFDM systems and Standards
6.1 IEEE802.11 (WLAN) Systems
6.2 IEEE802.16 (WiMax) Systems