ECE 257B: Course Outline

How do we sense, communicate and interact with our environment today?

• LEC 1: Course Introduction, How to choose your project?
  Review: Wireless Communication, Wireless sensing, where are we today in wireless sensing and communication?
  

• LEC 2: Review of how to transmit and receive wireless signals Mapping bits to signal space (modulation), transmitting and receiving, wireless channels review
  Assigned Readings: A must read for the class on how to read paper and Thesis on OFDM
   

• LEC 3: Wireless Channel part 2, Why OFDM?
  Assigned Readings: Same as previous class

• LEC 4: Introduction to OFDM. Nature does linear Convolution but we want it to do Circular Convolution. How?
  Assigned Readings: Same as previous class

• LEC 5: OFDM Continued. How to solve impairments in Hardware using DSP techniques
  Assigned Readings: Same as previous class
  Lecture 5 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 6: OFDM continued - Need for Pilots in OFDM. Introduction to MIMO.
  Capacity scaling –> MIMO
  Assigned Readings: IAC, JMB
  Optional Readings: Diversity Multiplexing Trade-off
  Lecture 6 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 7: MIMO 1: Interference Alignment, Nulling, Interference Nulling, Alignment and Cancellation
  Assigned Readings: IAC
  Optional Readings: (Chapter 7), NPlus, Random Access Heterogeneous MIMO Networks
  Lecture 7 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 8: MIMO 2: Synchronization issues in MIMO and MegaMIMO
  Assigned Readings: MegaMIMO
  Optional Readings:AirShare, Vidyut,SourceSync
  Lecture 8 Reading Quiz: link

Mono-static Sensing and Communication: Space Fourier Transform (Radars and Wireless Sensing, Backscatter Communication)

• Lec 9: Fundamentals of Sensing : Space Fourier Transform
  Topics covered: transmission and reception of the signal from same radio; model for the environment in the world of wireless; duality of communication and sensing
  Lecture 9 Reading Quiz: link
  

• LEC 10: Fundamentals of Sensing : Space Fourier Transform
  Assigned Readings:  WiTrack
  Optional Readings: WiTrack2,WiVi
  Lecture 10 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 11: Principles of Wireless Sensing
  Lecture 11 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 12: Monostatic Sensing
  Assigned Readings: VitalRadio
  Optional Readings: RF-Capture, WiSee & EQRadio

• LEC 13: Basics of Backscatter Communications: RFID
  Readings: RFDraw
  Lecture 13 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 14: Backscatter Communications and Compressed Sensing
  Assigned Readings: BUZZ
  Optional Readings: Gen2-RFID, DewDrop
  Lecture 14 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 15: Compressed Sensing and Super-Resolution
  Lecture 15 Reading Quiz: link

Bi-static Sensing and Communication (WiFi based Wireless Sensing and Localization)

• LEC 16: Bi-static Localization Basics (CFO and phase)
  Assigned Readings: Chronos
  Lecture 16 Reading Quiz: link

• LEC 17: Wireless Localization (Space expansion)
  Assigned Readings: ArrayTrack, Multipath Triangulation
  Optional Readings: PinLoc, PinPoint
  Lecture 17 Reading Quiz: link

• Lec 18: BLE (Bluetooth Low-Energy)
  Lecture 18 Reading Quiz: link

• Lec 19: MUSIC and SpotFi
  Assigned Readings: SpotFi,
  Optional Readings: RFIND RFCompass PinIt
  Lecture 19 Reading Quiz: link