Course notes

Below is a set of course notes for EE6323 Wireless System Design, a graduate course taught at IIT Madras. The audience is a mix of senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students in engineering. The course takes one wireless system apart and rebuilds it, moving across three verticals, each taught by one instructor:

  1. Digital Communications (DC) — Radha Krishna Ganti

  2. RF electronics (RF) — S. Aniruddhan

  3. Electromagnetics (EM) — Uday Khankhoje

The notes are organised by vertical. They follow the topic order used in class, and they aim at what a working wireless engineer needs from each area rather than a full treatment of any of them. In particular, the EM notes give a working knowledge of antennas and propagation without the detailed derivations of an advanced electromagnetics course.

Digital Communications (DC)

  1. Bits, probability, and error-correcting codes

  2. Modulation, detection, and coding gain

  3. Noise, fading, and synchronization

  4. Pulse shaping and matched filtering

  5. Inter-symbol interference, equalization, and channel estimation

Print versions: bits.pdf, mod.pdf, channel.pdf, pulse.pdf, isi.pdf.

RF electronics (RF)

Notes for this vertical will appear here.

Electromagnetics (EM)

  1. Antennas

  2. Antenna arrays

Companion pages with Matlab commands (using the Antenna Toolbox) for working through the material:

  1. Chapter 1 Matlab resources

  2. Chapter 2 Matlab resources

Print versions: antennas.pdf, arrays.pdf.

Notice

  1. You may use these notes for academic purposes with an attribution to the authors and this page.

  2. You may not re-post this content anywhere without explicit permission from the authors.

Reference material

  1. Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, Constantine A. Balanis, 3rd ed. Keyword CB (EM vertical)

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