Cognitive & Software Defined Radio
Course Description
Today's wireless services have come a long way since the rollout of the conventional voice-centric cellular systems. The demand for wireless access in voice and high data rate multi-media applications has been increasing. New generation wireless communication systems are aimed at accommodating this demand through better resource management and improved transmission technologies. The interest in increasing the Spectrum Access and improving the Spectrum Efficiency combined with both the introduction of Software Defined Radios and the realization of the idea that machine learning can be applied to radios has created new intriguing possibilities for wireless radio researchers. This course targets to discuss the cognitive radio, software defined radio, and adaptive radio concepts from several aspects. The scope will include the following:
- Application of SDR in advanced communication systems
- Challenges and issues regarding the implementation of SDR
- Adaptive wireless communication systems
- Parameter estimation for adaptation of wireless communication systems (learning environment and other factors)
- SDR and cognitive radio architectures
- Spectrum efficiency and soft spectrum usage
- Multi-dimensional spectrum awareness
- Applications of cognitive radio (specifically for public safety)
- Cognitive features in the upcoming wireless standards (LTE, WiMAX, etc)
- Spectrum, network, context, environment, location awareness for cognitive radio
- Blind receiver design
- Femto-cells and relation to cognitive radio
- Cognitive OFDM(A)
- UWB and Cognitive radio (underlay and overlay)
- Interference awareness
- Signal analysis, signal awareness
- Vertical hand-off and network interoperability - network awareness, multi-tier networks
- Sampling and ADC/DAC issues in CR and SDR
- Multi-rate processing, sampling rate adjustments. Auto-rate detection and adjustments
Pre-requisites
Basic knowledge of Fourier transforms and linear system analysis, digital signal processing, communication systems, and wireless communication systems are desirable, but not absolutely necessary. Students without any communications background should be prepared that certain portions of the course may be difficult to follow.
Books & References
We will not be using a specific text book for the course. We will create a data base(link) for including the related papers and documents, and these materials will be used for the course. The related references will be provided by the instructor. The lecture slides will be provided to the students through myUsf (blackboard).
Course Documents
- Detailed Course Outline -Outline of the course and the topics that are planned to be covered
- Syllabus -Instructor, goals, prerequisits, class location and time, office hours etc.
- Course Materials - Course materials are available in Blackboard
- Some useful wireless sites and references