Offers you a wide-ranging overview of traditional and digital wireless communications, including first, second, and third generation systems. You explore signal/data processing, physical design, and high-level operation, performance, standards, and control of wireless communications systems. WebCampus Stevens Director: Stuart Tewksbury. Co-sponsored by Stevens Institute of Technology and ASME International.

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Wireless Communications Graduate Certificate Program
Wireless Systems Security EE584	Bruce McNair	Fall 2004
Wireless Systems Overview EE583WS	Murat Sonmez	Fall 2004
Spread Spectrum and CDMA EE651WS	Yu-Dong Yao	Fall 2004
Physical Design of Wireless Communications EE585	Bruce McNair	Fall 2004
Wireless Networking:  Architectures, Protocals and Standards EE586WS	Xiaoping Wu	Fall 2004

Credits	3 credits per course/12 credits per certificate ASME members can take advantage of the 10% discount off of tuition Master's requires 30 credits or 10 courses.
Tuition/credit	$825/credit
Spring 2002 starting date	September 7, 2004
Spring 2002 ending date	December 13, 2004
Application	Apply
Phone	201-216-5084, 800-496-4935
Fax	201-216-8044
Email	webcampus@stevens-tech.edu
Mail	WebCampus.Stevens The Graduate School Stevens Institute of Technology Castle Point on the Hudson Hoboken, NJ 07030 United States of America

Wireless Systems Security (EE584)
Wireless systems and their unique vulnerabilities to attack; system security issues in the context of wireless systems, including satellite, terrestrial microwave, military tactical communications, public safety, cellular and wireless LAN networks; security topics: confidentiality/privacy, integrity, availability, and control of fraudulent usage of networks. Issues addressed include jamming, interception and means to avoid them. Case studies and student projects are an important component of the course. Fall 2004. WebCampus Stevens Faculty: Bruce McNair.

Wireless Systems Overview (EE583WS)
You are introduced to technologies and applications of wireless communication systems, leading you to an appreciation of technical issues at a modest depth. You explore the physics of wave generation, propagation and reception, continuing onto circuits and components. You learn about signal processing as well as techniques employed to impress voice and data information on a wireless channel. Receive an overview of representative applications in current- and next-generation systems. You study E&M waves, transmitters and receivers (analog sections, assuming coded data), cellular wireless systems for mobile communications, cellular LANs for data communications, satellite communications systems, and digital signal processing for wireless data networks. Fall 2004. WebCampus Stevens Faculty: Murat Sonmez

Spread Spectrum and CDMA (EE651WS)
Covers fundamentals of digital communication that have emerged as the basis for many techniques employed in the generation of spread spectrum waveform. These include pseudo-random codes, modulation and demodulation techniques, synchronization, statistical distributions, direct sequence (DS) and frequency hopping (FH) spread spectrum, and capacity calculation for a CDMA system. Gain an overview of wireless architecture, spread spectrium communication, design of optimum receivers, calculation of theoretical capacity of a CDMA system, coding and decoding processes in CDMA, effects of co-channel interference in CDMA, and synchronization in CDMA wireless communication systems. 3G wireless systems using CDMA technologies are also studied in this course.  Fall 2004. WebCampus Stevens Faculty:  Yu-Dong Yao 

Physical Design of Wireless Communications (EE585)
Extends your understanding of physical design of wireless communication systems, emphasizing transmitter and receiver sections. You cover the design of directional, steerable antennas. Your study of carrier frequencies in wireless systems will lead you to appreciate semiconductor and other technologies. You review signal bandwidth to familiarize yourself with packaging of transmitter and receiver ends. You learn that at lower carrier frequencies-900 MHz to about 2-3 GHz-advanced IC technologies are preferred, given the maturity of the technology and density of analog and digital circuitry now integrated on a single IC. At higher frequencies, you will encounter limits to current silicon technologies, recognizing the importance of specialized semiconductor technologies, such as GaAs and SiGe circuits. You will understand difficulties in realizing high-accuracy analog/digital conversions at multi-GHz frequencies, allowing you to appreciate the need for analog circuitry. You will investigate analog/digital conversions at high sampling rates for digital processing at a receiver's front end, permitting the possible introduction of many new techniques. You discover that when front-end digital signal processing cannot be achieved, digital processing is employed at intermediate frequencies. You will understand contemporary digital signal processor technology by considering performance limitations of technologies and architectures. Fall 2004. WebCampus Stevens Faculty: Arshad Hussain

Wireless Networking:  Architectures, Protocols and Standards (EE586WS)
Addresses fundamentals of wireless networking, including architectures, protocols and standards.  Learn concepts, technology, and applications of wireless networking in current and next-generation wireless networks. Understand engineering aspects of network functions and designs.  You will appreciate the concepts of mobility management, wireless enterprise networks, GSM, networking signaling, WAP, mobile IP, and 3G systems. Fall 2004. Webcampus Stevens Faculty: Xiaoping Wu