EECE 5576 — Wireless Communication Systems

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springtypical days: M/ThBostonOnlineTraditionalVideo Streaming

Examines fundamental principles of wireless system design, focusing on modern techniques used in cellular systems and wireless local area networks. Covers various levels of system design, from modulation/detection to traffic analysis. Introduces basics of radio propagation and studies their effect on communication signals. Special topics include spatial frequency reuse; call blocking and cellular system capacity; power control and hand-off strategies; channel access and sharing; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM—a modulation technique used in WLAN and the fourth-generation [4G] cellular systems) and spread spectrum modulation (third-generation WCDMA systems); diversity techniques and multi-input multi-output (MIMO) signal processing. Requires an undergraduate course in communications systems.

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Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Spring 202423414424%55.0
Fall 20241344085%6.0
Spring 202523713527%49.0
Spring 20261154533%30.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 79% · T 0% · W 41% · Th 79% · F 13%

Common patterns: MR (51% of sections), MWR (28% of sections), WF (13% of sections), async (8% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

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Unlocks

EECE 7324

Courses that list EECE 5576 in their prerequisites.

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