The design project has significant flexibility, and you must decide very early what to do. Typical projects usually fall into two categories:

• a literature survey on a selected topic. Try to include recent literature references.
• a software simulation study. The simulation tools and platform is your choice.

ECE4601 is a course in physical communications and your project topics should be chosen appropriately.    Topics in communications networking are covered in other courses.  If you have any questions concerning the suitability of your topic, please ask before starting your project.

You are strongly encouraged to focus your project, making it narrower and deeper rather than broader and shallower. Try to be more qualitative and analytical rather than qualitative and descriptive.

You are required to prepare and submit a final report by Thursday April 17, 2008.

Your final report should include a title page, abstract, table of contents, list of figures, main body, conclusions and references, and may include appendices. The report must use 12pt type and not exceed a total of 20 pages, 26 lines per page, plus 12 figures and tables.

Late projects will not be accepted.

START EARLY!!

• Radio Channel Modeling
• Modulation and Coding Techniques
• Turbo Coding
• Space-time Coding
• Spread Spectrum Techniques
• Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
• Cognitive Radio
• Adaptive Equalization 
• Interference Cancellation
• Adaptive Antennas
• MIMO Channel Modeling
• Antenna Arrays
• Multicarrier Modulation (e.g., OFDM)
• CDMA Multiuser Detection
• Receiver Synchronization
• Iterative Receivers
• Simulation of PHY layer of a wireless standard
• A Topic of Your Own (with approval)

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Communications
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
• IEEE Communications Letters
• Proceedings of the IEE
• IEE Electronics Letters
• Kluwer Journal on Wireless Personal Communications
• ACM/Baltzer Journal on Wireless Networks
• Plenum International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
• IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
• IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC)
• IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc. (ICASSP)
• Nordic Seminar on Digital Mobile Radio Communications