ECEn 662R Schedule

ECEN 665 Schedule for Winter 2009 (Instructor - Karl F. Warnick)
Date		Supplemental Reading	Topic	HW	Notes

Antenna Fundamentals
Jan	6	BAL 3.1-3.5	Course Introduction, Vector Potentials, Radiation Integral	HW1	LN1
	8	BAL 3.6-3.8	Far-field, Antenna Analysis	HW2	LN2
	13	BAL 2.1-2.7	Antenna Parameters		LN3
	15	BAL 2.8-2.16	Reciprocity, Receive Antennas	HW3	LN4
	20	BAL 2.17-2.18	Effective Aperture, Friis Transmission Formula, Antenna Temperature	HW4	LN5
Antenna Types
	22	BAL 4.1-4.6	Dipoles	HW5	LN6
	27	BAL 7.5	Moment Method
	29	BAL 5.1-5.3	Loops	HW6	LN7
Feb	3	ELL 3.7	Patches	HW7	LN8
	5	BAL 12.1-12.4, ELL 3.2-3.3	Horns, Reflectors	HW8	LN9
	10	BAL 13.1, 13.4, ELL 10.3-10.9	Arrays, Schelkunoff's representation, Pattern synthesis	HW9	LN10
Arrays
	12	ELL 4.1-4.4, BAL 6.3	Dolph-Chebyshev arrays	HW10	LN11
	17		No class - Monday instruction
	19	ELL 5.8	Overlap integral formulation	HW11	LN12
	24		Receive arrays	HW12	LN13
	26		Receive arrays		LN14
			Midterm Exam: Testing Center, Mar. 2-4		Review
Mar	3		No class
	5		Receive arrays - correlation matrices	HW13	Coupling Formulas
Propagation Channels
	10	Haykin 2.6	Multipath channels, Rayleigh, Ricean channels		LN15
	12		Temporal Models, Azimuth Spectrum Models	HW14	LN16
	17		Random processes, Communication Theory		LN17
	19	Haykin App. C, 3.1-3.7, 3.12, 4.1-4.4	Modulation, BER	Writing
	24	Jakes 5.1-5.2, Haykin 6.2, 6.3, App. G	Signal Correlation, Antenna Diversity, MIMO	HW15	LN18
	26	Haykin 6.4, 6.5	Information Theory, MIMO	HW16	LN19
	31	Haykin 6.6	MIMO		LN20
Apr	2		Space-time coding, Alamouti code, channel estimation	HW17	LN21
	7		Alamouti code, EDOF	HW18	LN22
	9		Adaptive beamforming, interference cancelation	HW19	LN23
	14		Review
			Final Exam