The design project has significant flexibility, but 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 the most recent literature references.
• a software simulation study. The simulation tools and platform is your choice.

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.  Avoid qualitative overviews of a topic.

The project msut be completed individually. To satisfy the project requirement, you are required to

• Select an appropriate topic and submit a one page abstract with an attached list of preliminary literature references no later than Thursday January 24, 2008.   You will not be graded on this, but you will get feedback if necessary to help you better define your project.
• Prepare and submit a final report no later than 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 not exceed a total of 20 pages  (12pt, 26 lines per page), plus a maximum of 12 figures and tables.

You are now aware of the project due date and have the entire semester ahead of you, START EARLY!!!. Late projects will not accepted.

ECE6604 is a course in physical wireless communications. You must choose a project topic dealing with physical layer issues. Topics in wireless networking, e.g, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mobility management, etc. are covered in our companion course ECE6610 and are NOT acceptable!   If your project does not include (somewhere) a model of the radio propagation channel, then it is probably not acceptable.

The following is a nonexhaustive list of some possible project topics.

• Radio channel propagation measurements and modeling.
• Advanced fading channel simulation techniques.
• Radio link quality (received power, C/I) measurement techniques.
• CDMA multiuser detection techniques.
• Multicarrier CDMA
• Receiver synchronization.
• TDMA equalization techniques.
• Co-channel interference cancellation.
• Advanced orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) techniques.
• MIMO systems.
• Adaptive antennas and arrays.
• Turbo and LDPC coding.
• Iterative detection and decoding.
• Space-time coding and diversity techniques.
• Automatic repeat request techniques.
• CDMA power control and soft hand-off algorithms.
• Resource management for wideband CDMA
• Radiolocation  in wireless networks.
• Ultra wide band techniques
• Software reconfigurable radio
• Cognitive Radio Techniques
• A topic of your own - talk to me about it first!

You will need a good list of journal and conference publications for your project.   Avoid using non-peer reviewed material from the Internet.  

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• 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
• 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)
• YRP Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

Note that all IEEE Journals and Conference records are available on-line through IEEE Explore