Online Courses

Our technical education programs are tailored specifically for remote access and individual learning. Programs are based on traditional 10-week university courses. Students will have access to slide decks that navigate through the material, as well as manuscripts with detailed information.

In both the individually-based as well as the for-credit institutional forms, students and instructors will hold regular 90 min review and Q&A sessions on Zoom. For individual-based courses the students will book their own Zoom calls with the instructor, while the Zoom meetings for the institutional format will be held weekly over a ten-week period.

Assignments, grading, and final exams are offered in the institutional format. Certificates of completion are issued for the individual-based format. The technical material can be individually compiled from the topics list of any of the study areas, with one topic per week for a total of 10 topics for a full course.

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Fundamentals of Wireless Networks

The OSI model, data link layer, network layer, transport layerTCP:
- A congestion protocol, TCP/IP, Automatic Repeat Requests
Basic of wireless communications: modulation, the channel, link budget
Transmission effects, fading, shadowing, path loss, channel capacity
Medium access methods, CDMA, medium access control (MAC) layer
Random access, ALOHA, CSMA, CSMA/CD, Ethernet 802.3
Queuing theory, the M/M/1 queue, M/M/m and M/M/infty queues
M/G/1 queues and their analysis with random walk theory
Networks of queues, Burke's Theorem, Jackson's Theorem
Multipacket reception (MPR) and spread ALOHA, K-user systems
MPR protocols with Poisson arrivals
Routing in networks, Bellman-Ford, AODV
Basics of network information theory, connectivity of networks
Network coding theory, BATS coding, delay-tolerant networks (DPN)
Examples and applications

Probability and Random Processes

Axiomatic probability theory, basics, axioms and theorems.
Distributions, binomial, Poisson, exponential, waiting times.
Limit theorem, Gaussian distribution, weak & strong law of large numbers.
Concepts of convergence, the Marchenko-Pastur law.
Transformations of random variables, convolution.
Random processes, definition, statistical description.
Stationarity, ergodicity, filtering of random processes, example: fading channels.
Estimation theory, classical estimation, MVE, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound.
Examples, radar system, timing synchronization.
Bayesian estimation, maximum likelihood estimation, MMSE.
Linear estimation, orthogonality principle, example: linear prediction.
Wiener filtering, sequential linear minimum mean-square filtering.
Kalman filtering, the extended Kalman filter, unscented Kalman filter.
Neural networks and principles of deep learning, use in nonlinear filtering.

Waveform Communications

Linear system, fourier series, convolution, LTI channels & equalizers.
AM modulation, double/single side band, DSB/SSB, bandwidth & power.
Sampling theorem, aliasing, signal reconstruction, the link budget.
The bit, information theory, digital signal representation, matched filter.
Error probabilities, signal constellations, discrete modulation, channels.
Convolutional codes and trellis-coded modulation concepts.
Nyquist and ISI-free signaling, complex signals, wireless modulations.
Bandwidth, duration, spectral efficiency and channel capacity.
Frequency-Shift Keying & OFDM, fast fourier transform (FFT) modulation.
Time-varying and dispersive channels, equalization of OFDM signals.
Error control coding in communications, methods and complexity.
Key FEC methods: turbo coding, LDPC codes and iterative decoding.
Error correcting coding principles, BCH and Reed-Solomon codes.
The 802.3an modem, a modern complex communications system.
Multiple-antenna (MIMO) communications and massive MIMO for 5G.
Spread-spectrum communications for LPI/LPD system and CDMA.
Fountain coding, network coding, and BATs coding for networks.
Iterative signal receivers, turbo equalization, spatial coupling & capacity.