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Signal Processing in Telecommunications and Radar course
2008/9 - summer term
Scoring
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- 25% Project "R": radar
- +25% Project "T": telecomm
- =50% Project total
- ==50% Semester total
- 50% Exam (in the session)
Total: 100%
Teachers
A person responsible for the whole course is me, Jacek Misiurewicz
(room 447, tel 7478). The team consists also of dr. Krzysztof Kulpa
(r. 447) and mgr Mateusz Malanowski (r. 453), who will have part of
lectures and will supervise part of projects.
Projects
Two projects are to be done during the semester. Project "R" is
connected with radar technology (due in the middle of the semester),
project "T" with telecommunications (due before the end of semester).See the
schedule to find the deadlines.
Each project consists of two stages, scored separately, and with
separate deadlines. Missing deadline == part of the score lost.
Project hours (to be defined) are reserved for individual discussion -
according to student's needs, and for project stage submission - according
to schedule.
Project stages
- Stage 1 - Projects specification: describe (on a single page) what
you're going to do; find a title; declare minimal goal and possible extension;
decide type of work (simulation procedures? working model? study of ...?)
specify tools (Octave? Matlab? C++? Parts of code taken from existing
libraries?) and final product (command-line? GUI? interactive webpage?
results in a nice plot or a table?).
Upon submission the student discusses the specification with the teacher, and when accepted in time he gets 5%.
- Stage 2 -
Final project: present a working program and results of
simulations; submission includes:
- Few pages of documentation/report on paper,
printed (or handwritten) by a student (two-sided if possible). It
should document the usage of your code (e.g. "help" for the student
written m-files/c-functions/etc.) and show the results (e. g. plot of
BER vs. SNR, amplitude vs Doppler,... and/or an example of error in a specific situation, or
the signal before and after some filtering etc.).
There is no
need to repeat the parts that formed stage1 if they haven't
changed.
- Your code emailed to me or zip'ped on a USB drive (yes,
I'll return the drive after copying ;-) ); instead it can be printed
on paper - but only if it is not more than 1 page;
- A show (approx. 6 minutes if you are prepared) of your program in action. Prepare yourself
for a quick show - setup everything on your laptop (or a borrowed one
;-) ) so it works well. Be prepared for some questions ("Please show
what is happening if we change the SNR/sampling rate/number of
channels/whatever") or discussion ("why is the plot so strange?"
"show how the decoding is implemented in your m-file"), sometimes
even quick patch to be done on spot ("Please try to use a pre-filter
and compare the results - it's 3 lines of code, and should work much better").
Stage 2 is scored at 20% if submitted in time.
When submitting the Stage 2 you may change some specifications,
but the change must be justified in writing.
If you miss the deadline for some part of project, you lose from
1/10 (late by <10 days) up to 1/4 of score (late by >10 days).
Project themes
Each student should define her/his own project theme. It must include
type of work, investigated effect, type of component under
investigation and target application. The tools may be specified in
the title or in the description.
Below you may find examples of theme parts.
(type of work)
- Simulation of...
- Experimental model of...
- A tool for...
- A study of... (remark: "a study" means "calculations and simple
simulations of signal processing methods")
- A plugin for ... doing ....
(effect)
- ...noise effects in...
- ...nonlinear effects in...
- ...multipath effects in...
- ...Doppler effects in...
- ...influence of number of bits on...
- ...practical application of...
(part of a system)
- ...transmission channel...
- ...directional reception...
- ...matched/correlation filtering...
- ...modulation/demodulation...
- ...coding/decoding with _______ method...
- ...echo cancellation...
- ...sampling method
(application area)
- (project "R") for a /pulsed/continuous wave/noise/passive/etc. radar/sonar/USG .
- (project "T") for a /voice telephony/digital video broadcast/GSM/UMTS/WiFi/Bluetooth/etc.
We strongly encourage to use these as an
example to create your own project, e.g. connected with your chosen
thesis area. If you have ANY doubt, please discuss the subject long BEFORE
the deadline of Stage 1.(latest possibility for R1 discussion: Mon 27.04 office hours).
Example themes:
- [R]Simulation of background noise level effect on sonar detector.
- [R]Study of Doppler effect influence on matched filter reception in
pulse radar
- [R]Matlab model of Doppler ultrasound blood flow meter
- [T]Experimental model of software radio. (in the description: It will
work off-line using simulated DAB /or .. using FM signals recorded
with a digital oscilloscope/.)
- [T]Study of Doppler effect in UMTS communication.
- [T]A tool for multipath effect modelling in DAB.
We don't go inside protocols, compression schemes etc. We stay in the
modulation-transmission-demodulation part of the system.
Exam
A final exam is during the session (two dates will be
scheduled). Additionally, an "exam0" date will be available to
students with project accepted before deadline.
Paper, pen, pencil, ruler. No books etc.. Notes are allowed, providing they are
prepared by a student himself, with hand writing (no
photocopying!)
Only exception: lecture slide copies are allowed.
Books
The course is based on selected chapters of following books:
- .en.:
- Simon Haykin, Telecommunication Systems.
- A.V. Oppenheim, R.W. Shaefer, Discrete-time signal
processing
- M.I. Skolnik, Introduction to radar systems
- M.I. Skolnik, Radar handbook
- .pl.:
- Jerzy Szabatin, Podstawy teorii sygnałów (WKŁ)
- Tomasz P. Zieliński, Cyfrowe przetwarzanie sygnałów (WKŁ)
- Krzysztof Wesołowski, Podstawy cyfrowych systemów
telekomunikacyjnych
- Zbigniew Czekała, Parada radarów (Bellona)
I don't reccomend buying these books (a new set will ruin you),
if you plan to attend lectures. The .pl. books may be,
hovewer, valuable positions in your professional library. The .en.
ones too; you may hunt for some used books on Amazon or elsewhere.
A list of links to slides follows. If you see here some future
lectures, just don't care. The only official version is the one seen
in the lecture room ;-). However, you may expect the good version to
show up here the evening before the lecture.
Some notes are presented on the blackboard. If you don't attend the
lecture, you miss them.
Lecture 1/2:
Introduction
Lecture 3 & 4:
Up/Downconversion, mixers, filters
Matched filter reception - dual
receiver and one transmitter. The dual receiver is used for
estimation of echo direction - we'll discuss it later.
Lecture 5:
Channel properties etc.Lecture PDF
Nice example of Doppler effect
problems: Titan
Calling article from IEEE Spectrum (may be unaccessible from
outside of PW)
Lecture 6:Radar basics
Lecture 7:Pulse radar basics
Lecture 8: CW radar
slides (pdf)
Easy conference paper with some
equations (KKTOiUE conference, 1997)
Advanced radarsslides (pdf)
Lecture 9: Digital Radio
slides (pdf)
Lecture 10: Digital Video
slides (pdf)
Lecture 11: TEST!!! Okecie airport excursion
Lectures 12-14: GSM/UMTS/...
Slides by M. Purchla
dr inż. Jacek Misiurewicz
room 447 453 (GE)
Office hours: Mon 10:15-12:00 (or by e-mail appointment)
Institute of Electronic Systems
email:jmisiure@elka.pw.edu.pl
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