IEMS 5701 Wireless Communications

Systems

Prof. Angela Zhang

Dept. Information Engineering
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 About Myself
• Professor in Dept. Information Engineering, CUHK
• Fellow of IEEE and IET
• Member-at-Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors
• Winner of IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award
• Winner of Hong Kong Young Scientist Award
• Chair, Executive Editorial Committee of IEEE Trans. Wireless
Communications
• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Open Journals of Communications Society
• Graduated 15 Ph.D. students and 5 M.Phil. Students
• Research area
– Wireless communications and networking
 Course Information
• Course webpage:
https://course.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~iems5701/
• Friday 9:30am-12:15pm, SC L3
• Instructor: Angela Zhang
– email: yjzhang (at) ie.cuhk.edu.hk
• TA: Zheyuan Yang
– email: yz019 (at) ie.cuhk.edu.hk
• Assessment: Assignment 40%, Final Exam: 60%

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 Academic Honesty
• Zero Tolerance
– Plagiarism, cheating, misconduct in test/exam will be
reported to the Faculty Disciplinary Committee for
handling.
• Penalty
– Zero marks for the concerned
assignments/test/exam/whole course, reviewable
demerits, non-reviewable demerits, suspension of
study, dismissal from University.
• University Guidelines to Academic Honesty
– http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/
Reference books

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 Wireless system evolution:
Opportunities and Challenges

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 Wireless vs. Wired

Growing Data Volume vs. Limited

Spectrum

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Ubiquitous Communication Among People
and Devices

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Ubiquitous Communication Among
People and Devices

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Internet of Things

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Global Mobile Data Traffic Growth

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Growing Demand vs. Limited Supply

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 Current and Emerging Wireless Systems
• Wireless cellular systems
• Wireless local area networks (WLAN)
• Wireless personal area networks (WPAN)
– Bluetooth
– Zigbee
• Wireless sensor networks, Machine to machine
comm.
• LiFi
 Wireless/Radio Communications
• Use radio waves to transmit information between
two or more points
The Most Widely Deployed: Cellular Systems
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5G Wireless
 5G Wireless Systems

https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/telecom/wireless/everything-you-
need-to-know-about-5g
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6G

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Evolution of Cellular Systems

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 Wireless Local Area Networks (WiFi)
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Access
Point

l WLANs connect “local” computers (100m range)

l Breaks data into packets
l Channel access is shared (random access)
l Backbone Internet provides best-effort service
l Poor performance in some apps (e.g. video)
WiFi and Smart City

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Wireless Personal Area Networks

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 Bluetooth
• Cable replacement RF technology (low cost)
• Short range (10m, extendable to 100m)
• 2.4 GHz band (crowded)
• 1 Data (700 Kbps) and 3 voice channels, up to 3 Mbps
• Widely supported by telecommunications, PC, and consumer
electronics companies
• Few applications beyond cable replacement

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 ZigBee Radios

• Low-Rate WPAN
• Data rates of 20, 40, 250 Kbps
• Support for large mesh networking or star clusters
• Support for low latency devices
• CSMA-CA channel access
• Very low power consumption
• Frequency of operation in ISM bands

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 Wireless Sensor Networks
• Smart homes/buildings
• Smart structures
• Search and rescue
• Homeland security
• Event detection
• Battlefield surveillance

§ Energy (transmit and processing) is the driving constraint

§ Data flows to centralized location (joint compression)
§ Low per-node rates but tens to thousands of nodes
§ Intelligence is in the network rather than in the devices
 Applications in Health,
Biomedicine and Neuroscience
Doctor-on-a-chip
-Phone as repository and
source of information
- Remote monitoring,
diagnoses, surgery
- Networking of doctors Wireless
and patients Network

Neuro/Bioscience applications
- EKG signal reception/modeling Recovery from
- Information science Nerve Damage
- Nerve network (re)configuration
- Implants to monitor/generate signals
-In-body sensor networks
Internet of Things: Smart Home

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Mi Smart Home Devices

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Internet of Things: Wearables

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Internet of Things: Smart Cities

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Internet of Things: Connected
Vehicles
• Self driving
• Crash avoidance
• Advanced traveler
information

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Challenges in Wireless Communications
• Security, secrecy, privacy
– Physical layer security, differential privacy
• Resource and spectrum utilizations
– New spectrum bands; cognitive radio; advanced coding
and modulation; massive MIMO; ultra-dense cells
• Communication infrastructure
– Collaborative cell-free network; integration of satellite,
aerial, terrestrial, and underwater networks
• Energy efficiency enhancements
– Massive MIMO; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces;
backscatter communications
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Challenges in Wireless Communications
• Integration of wireless information and power transfer
– Wireless power transfer; SWIPT
• Wireless access technologies
– OMA; NOMA; Rate splitting
• Resource and interference management
– Machine learning based technologies; Distributed ML
• Highly dynamic topology
– Fast and self-intelligent development of network functions;
seamless and ubiquitous communications during movement

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 Tentative Course Syllabus
• The Basics:
– Overview of wireless systems
– Digital modulation and its performance
– Wireless propagation channel
– Coherent and non-coherent detection
• The Advanced:
– Diversity schemes
– Wireless channel capacity
– Multiple antenna systems
– OFDM
• Emerging Technologies
– Millimeter wave, Massive MIMO, Small cells
– Green communications, Energy harvesting wireless network
– Intelligent surface
– Mobile edge intelligence
 Prerequisite
• Basic probability and stochastic process
• Basic signal and systems
• Basic principles of communications
• Basic digital communications

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