CEEN 4940/8946 Special Topic: Spread Spectrum Communications

UNO - Summer 2000; 3 credit hours PKI 160 0525PM to 0720PM

Course Description: Introduction to the theory of spread spectrum communications: direct sequence, frequency and time hopping techniques. Topics include properties of pseudo-random spreading sequences, low-probability-of-intercept and anti-jamming methods, performance of spread spectrum systems, application of spread spectrum techniques in radio and optical code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems. Recent development in spread spectrum communications and applications will be discussed.

Prerequisites: CEEN 3250 (Communications Circuits) and Math 3800 (Probability & Statistics, Random Process), or permission.

Text:

1. Text: R. L. Peterson, R. E. Ziemer, and D. E. Borth, Introduction to Spread Spectrum Communications, Prentice Hall, 1995.
2. Reference: R. C. Dixon, Spread Spectrum Systems with Commercial Applications, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.

Topics:

1. Review of digital communication concepts
2. Spread spectrum modulations: direct sequence, frequency and time hopping
3. PN spreading codes generation, acquisition and tracking
4. Applications of spread spectrum communications
5. Performance of spread spectrum systems: LPI, AJ and fading channels
6. Introduction to wireless and optical CDMA
7. Recent development: self-encoded spread spectrum, ultra-wideband radios

Contact Information:

• Dr. Lim Nguyen
• Phone: 554-2754 or 554-2288
• Fax: 554-2289

· E-mail: nguyenl@unomaha.edu; http://www.ceen.unomaha.edu/nguyenl