Course Catalog 2012-2013
Postgraduate

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Course Catalog 2012-2013

TLT-5606 Spread Spectrum Techniques, 5-7 cr

Additional information

Course www-page: https://moodle2.tut.fi/course/view.php?id=6879 The course will be lectured every second year, next time during 2012-13 (during Spring 2012, an alternative course, 'Signal Processing for wireless navigation' will be offered).
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Toni Huovinen, Elena-Simona Lohan, Markku Renfors

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises


 


 
 2 h/week
 1 h/week
+2 h/week
+1 h/week


 
TLT-5606 2012-01 Wednesday 14 - 16, TC221
Tuesday 14 - 16, TC221
Thursday 14 - 16, TC221

Requirements

Exam (5 cr). Possibility for up to 7 cr by completing a Matlab project.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The course focuses on the principles and theory of spread spectrum communications with emphasis on CDMA. After the course, a student has in-depth knowledge about CDMA techniques and their applications in wireless communications.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Basics of spread spectrum techniques, spreading, multiple access, DS-CDMA basics, multi-access interference.     
2. Spreading sequences, shift registers, spreading code families and their properties (m-sequences, Gold, Kasami, orthogonal codes).     
3. Code acquisition and tracking, search strategies, mean acquisition time analysis. Multipath propagation and impact on code synchronization; Feedback and feedforward code tracking structures     
4. Conventional single-user detection, performance analysis in AWGN, fading and single/multi-user channels, gaussian approximations, diversity reception, rake receiver, near-far resistance and multiuser efficiency.     
5. Optimal multi-user detection: decision strategies and performance analysis, optimal near-far resistance. Sub-optimum multi-user detection: decorrelating and MMSE detection, iterative detection, parallel and successice interference cancellation.     
6. Satellite-based positioning systems; focus on CDMA satellite navigation; acquisition and tracking - specific structures for navigation; challenges in satellite navigation; differences with CDMA communication systems.   Overview of satellite navigation systems nowadays (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Compass-Beidou, etc.)   
7. Fundamentals of Satellite Navigation; Position Determination Using PRN Codes;      

Evaluation criteria for the course

The assessment is based on the exam, which is targeted to measuring the knowledge gained in the core contents.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   A Software-Defined GPS and Galileo Receiver; Single-Frequency Approach.   Kai Borre            English  
Book   CDMA ¿ Principles of Spread Spectrum Communications   Viterbi            English  
Book   Introduction to spread spectrum communications   Peterson, Ziemer, Borth            English  
Book   Multiuser detection   Verdu            English  
Book   Understanding GPS Principles and Applications,   E.D. Kaplan            English  
Lecture slides   Spread Spectrum Techniques   Tapani Ristaniemi       jaetaan luentojen alussa      English  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
TLT-5406 Digital Transmission Mandatory    

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
TLT-5606 Spread Spectrum Techniques, 5-7 cr ELT-43206 Spread Spectrum Techniques, 5-7 cr  
TLT-5606 Spread Spectrum Techniques, 5-7 cr 83170 Spread Spectrum Techniques, 0 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
TLT-5606 2012-01 This course focuses on spread spectrum techniques, with a special emphasis on direct sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS) and on current wireless applications that are based on DS-SS (e.g., 3G, GNSS, ...) At the output of the course the student will be familiar with: - acquisition and tracking - Rake receivers - single and multi-user spread spectrum systems - basics on GNSS systems that use spread spectrum        

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