Prof. Moeness G. Amin's Home Page: Graduate Courses: Array Processing
Array Processing for Wireless Communications
ECE 8782
Course Description
Sensor array processing; Fourier-based, maximum likelihood, and high resolution angle of arrival estimation methods, narrowband and broadband array signal processing, coherent interference nulling and multipath problems, robust and constrained adaptive beamforming; smart antenna systems for cellular communications; switched beam antennas, spatial diversity, and fully adaptive antennas for improved coverage and range; uplink processing; low and high rank propagation channel models; spatial and temporal information for improved frequency reuse; CMA array, subspace methods, and blind equalization.
Prerequisites
Course Outline
Introduction
A spatial perspective for mobile communications
Modeling of communication channels
Diversity techniques
Channel estimation
Adaptive nulling techniques and robust beamforming
High resolution array processing
Blind equalizations
Rake receivers
Joint-angle delay estimation
Space-time processing
MIMO and Space-time coding