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Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
SPREAD SPECTRUM COMMUNICATIONS	Second cycle	EEM 596		1	7.50	7.50	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	No preconditions are required
Language of instruction	TURKISH
Coordinator	Prof. Dr. IBRAHIM DEVELI
Lecturer(s)	Prof. Dr. IBRAHIM DEVELI
Teaching assitant(s)	None.
Mode of delivery	The class meets for three lectures a week, each consisting of two 50-minute sessions. Student shall attend the lectures, look at the subject before it is lectured and go over the topics that are discussed earlier. To be able to realize his or her limitation every student shall solve at least the problem sets that are assigned as homework. When the student faces any difficulty while solving the problem sets, he or she shall ask questions to clarify the points that are not clear, in the following lecture.
Course objective	At the end of this course, students should be able to: i) Summarize the historical overview of spread spectrum communication systems, ii) Explain the major spread spectrum techniques (Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) and frequency-hopped spread spectrum (FHSS)), iii) Describe the Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access (DS-CDMA) (transmitter and receiver models), iv) Describe the generation and properties of some typical CDMA spreading sequences such as M-sequences, Gold sequences and Kasami sequences. v) Analyze the performance of various spread spectrum systems.
Course description	Fundamentals of spread spectrum communications, direct sequence spread spectrum signals, frequency hopping spread spectrum signals, devices for spread spectrum transmitters and receivers, types of spreading sequences (PN, MLSR, Gold etc.) employed in spread spectrum communications and generation of these sequences, effects of the design variety among spreading codes on the system performance, digital cellular communication systems based on spread spectrum concept.

Course contents

1	Fundamentals of spread spectrum communications,
2	Fundamentals of spread spectrum communications,
3	Direct sequence spread spectrum signals,
4	Direct sequence spread spectrum signals,
5	Frequency hopping spread spectrum signals,
6	Frequency hopping spread spectrum signals,
7	Devices for spread spectrum transmitters and receivers,
8	Devices for spread spectrum transmitters and receivers,
9	Types of spreading sequences employed in spread spectrum communications and generation of these sequences,
10	Types of spreading sequences employed in spread spectrum communications and generation of these sequences,
11	Effects of the design variety among spreading codes on the system performance,
12	Effects of the design variety among spreading codes on the system performance,
13	Digital cellular communication systems based on spread spectrum concept.
14	Digital cellular communication systems based on spread spectrum concept.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	Able to define the fundaments of spread spectrum systems in telecommunications engineering
2	Understand the basic principles of spread spectrum communications
3	Learning the digital cellular communication systems based on spread spectrum
4	Learning the spreading codes used in spread spectrum communications
5	Understand the effects of spreading code desing on the system performance
6	Able to learn how a spread spectrum transmitter and a receiver work
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	14	3	42
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	14	2	28
Homework	14	3	42
Presentation / seminar	5	1	5
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	12	4	48
Midterm exams	1	3	3
Project (term paper)	1	5	5
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	1	10	10
Final exam	1	3	3
Research	0	0	0
Total work load			186
ECTS			7.50

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homework	1	100
Semester total		100
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	Dr. İbrahim Develi, Lecture Notes on Spread Spectrum Communications (in Turkish), 2010.
Additional references	L. Hanzo, L-L. Yang, E-L. Kuan and K. Yen, Single and Multi-Carrier CDMA Multi-User Detection, Space-Time Spreading, Synchronisation and Standards, Chapter 2, Wiley-IEEE Press, 2003.

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