GUIDELINES FOR PROJECT FOR UEC804

The design project has significant flexibility, and you can decide very early what to
do. Typical projects usually involve two components:

Literature review. Try to include the most recent literature references.

Software simulation. The simulation tools and platform is your choice.

You are strongly encouraged to focus your project, making it narrower and deeper
rather than broader and shallower. Try to be more quantitative and analytical rather
than qualitative and descriptive. Broad qualitative overviews of a topic with little or
no analysis and/or computer simulation are not acceptable.
The project is be completed in Single/pairs/triples. To satisfy the project
requirement, you are required to

Select an appropriate topic and submit a one page abstract with an attached list
of preliminary literature references no later than August 31 2015. You will
not be graded on this, but you will get feedback if necessary to help you better
define your project topic.
Prepare and submit a final report no later than November 20, 2015. You can
submit your project earlier, but there will be no extensions and late
projects will not be accepted.

UEC804 is a course in wireless and mobile communications. You must choose a

project topic dealing with wireless and mobile issues. Usually, if your project
includes some model of the wireless channel, it will be acceptable. If you have doubts
about your project topic, please check with your instructor before proceeding.
The following is a list of some possible project topics. You are free to choose your
own topic as well.

Advanced channel modeling and simulation techniques.

Adaptive modulation and coding techniques
CDMA multiuser detection techniques.
Multicarrier techniques: OFDM, MC-CDMA, SC-FDMA (pick one)
Receiver time/frequency/sample synchronization.
Time domain equalization techniques.
Frequency domain equalization techniques.
Single antenna interference cancellation.
Space-time coding and diversity techniques.
Spatial multiplexing techniques.

Space division multiple access.

Multiuser diversity techniques.
Bit interleaved coded modulation.
Iterative receiver techniques.
CDMA power control and soft hand-off algorithms.
Cooperative communications.
Cellular network-based radiolocation techniques.
Software radio sample rate conversion and/or channelization.
Cognitive radio spectrum sensing and/or dynamic spectrum management.
Intelligent transport systems.
Green radio.
Information-Theoretic Capacity of Wireless Systems
SISO Fading Link (Coherent and Noncoherent)
Spatially Correlated MIMO Channels
Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in MIMO Systems
Transmitter-Receiver Design
Adaptive modulation
Coding for fading channels
Blind, adaptive equalization
Joint equalization and decoding
Multiuser detection
Channel acquisition and estimation
Multicarrier systems and OFDM
Space-Time Modulation/Coding with Limited Feedback
A topic of your own - talk to me about it first!

References
You will need a good list of journal and conference publications for your
project. Most of the following pulications are available on-line through IEEE
Explore which also has an excellent search capability. See the library
at www.thapar.edu/

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Letters
Proceedings of the IEE
IEE Electronics Letters
Kluwer Journal on Wireless Personal Communications
Plenum International Journal of Wireless Information Networks
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC)
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
(PIMRC)
IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications
(ICUPC)
IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc. (ICASSP)

Instructions for Final Presentation and Report

Project Report

Report must be written entirely in your own words.

Length: Your final report format should follow the style format used for
submission to IEEE Journals. Style files are available at the following
URL: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html LaTe
X users can use the style file IEEETran.sty or IEEETran.cls.
The report should not exceed a total of maximum 20 pages (12pt, 26 lines per
page) plus a maximum of 12 figures and tables. Use the one-column format
rather than the two-column format. Only exclusion is the cover page, which
you should prepare to include the title of the project, the date that you
submitted and your names and contact information (e-mail).
Do NOT copy images of equations from reference papers/material; type in the
software you are using.
Although we dont recommend it, in rare cases, you may end up including a
picture or a figure from a reference paper (do this only if it is absolutely
necessary). In that case, make sure to explicitly cite the material including the
figure number. For example in the caption: Picture of so-and-so prototype
device courtesy of [Reference, Figure ].
You should have 1 inch margins on each side, top and bottom (like this
document)
You may use word or LaTeX (or any other word processor you fancy), but you
need to e-mail me a pdf file of the final report. Again ALL figures, pictures, as
well as references (bibliography) must be included.
Presentation
You MUST limit your presentations to 10 minutes. In addition, you will have 5
minutes for questions.
Please give us a copy of your slides before your talk (this can be done on the
day of the talk.)
Practice your presentation at least once prior to your talk to make sure you can
stay within the time limit.
Don't put too much on each slide. Try and use pictures and words to explain
concepts wherever possible. You certainly don't have time to give all the details
-- leave these for the report.
Your audience should be able to answer the following questions after listening
to your presentation:
(a) What is basic problem area?
(b)Why is this topic important?

(c) What ideas do you have for future directions for this work?
(d) What did you learn from this project?
I will also be giving you credit for participating in your colleagues
presentations. Asking intelligent :-) questions and critiquing.
Your report will consist of your slides, plus explanatory notes and details
relevant to the slides. You may also include your notes on relevant material that
you spent time studying but could not fit into your presentation.
DEADLINE for submitting final reports is November 20, 2015 at NOON
(12:00pm). Late reports will not be accepted. Send me the pdf file by e-mail.
Any questions or concerns, feel free to e-mail me.

Plagiarism: It is essential that you properly reference your sources for your text,
figures and tables. Cases of plagiarism, such as unreferenced verbatim copying or
paraphrasing from ANY source, will lead to penalties.