EE610 M.S. Thesis

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Class Notes

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Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter I_ Signal and System Modeling
- Matlab for example_1_6.m: Is the sum of two sinusoids periodic?
Chapter 2: System Modeling & Analysis in the Time Domain
Chapter 3: The Fourier Series

Chapter 4: Fourier Transform & Applications
- Fourier Transform Theorem Table 4_1 (jpg)
- Fourier Transform Pairs Table 4_2 (jpg) *You should memorize (1,2,4,8-13,18)
- Example Ch4ex20.m, Fourier Transform of Spectrum of Periodic Signals: Output Figure(jpg)
Chapter 5:
- Laplace Transform Theorems Table 5_2 (jpg)
- Chapter 5 The Laplace Transform (jnt)
- Single_sided Laplace Transforms Table 5_3 (jpg)
- Partial Fraction Expansion (Power Point Presentation)

Chapter 6: *These are some of the notes (NOT ALL)

Introduction

Laplace Transform Equivalent Circuit Element

Analysis of Electrical Networks with Initial Conditions

Transfer Function Components of System Response

Chapter 8:

Analog to Digital Conversion (Sampling) (Lecture37.pdf)

Signal Reconstruction and Quantization Noise (Lecture38.pdf)

Z-transform (Lecture39.pdf)

Z-Transform and Applications to Discrete-Time Systems (Lecture40.pdf)

Short Table of Z-Transforms (jpg)

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Homework

External HW problems

Ex 1	Ex 2	Ex 3	Ex 4	Ex 5	Ex. 6
Sol. 1	Sol. 2	Sol. 3	Sol. 4	Sol. 5	Sol. 6

Homework Due Dates

HW #	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Due Week	2	3	5	6	6	8	8	9	10	10	14
Due Day	Mon	Wed	Mon	Mon	Mon	Sat	Sat	Sat	Sat	Sat	Sat
Solution

Quizzes

#	Topic	Due Week	class	081	111
1	Signals and Systems Modeling Concepts			Quiz 1
2	System Analysis in Time Domain			Quiz 2
3	Fourier Series			Quiz 3
4	Fourier Transform			Quiz 4
5	Fourier Transform Analysis and Laplace Transform			Quiz 5
6	Application of Laplace Transform to Circuits			Quiz 6
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Exams

Exam I	033	042	043	081	111
Exam II	033	042	043	081	111

Major Exam Location ?

Tutorial 1: Chapters 1, 2, & 3

Projects

Term	Project
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081	EE207 TERM Project 081

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EE610 M.S. Thesis

Dear M.S. Student,

The following website is meant to provide you with some guidelines to improve the quality of your thesis and research work. This page is in its infant stage and it will soon -insha Allah- be very helpful.

I hope you the best please feel free to send me any comment or suggestion you may have.

Possible MS Thesis Topics:

1) Time Delay Estimation , Cognitive Radio: Based on the work of Gezici

Gezici S, Celebi H, Poor HV, Arslan H. Fundamental limits on time delay estimation in dispersed spectrum cognitive radio systems. IEEE Trans on Wireless Commun. 2009 Jan;8(1):78–83.

Kocak F, Celebi H, Gezici S, Qaraqe KA, Arslan H, Poor HV. Time delay estimation in dispersed spectrum cognitive radio systems. Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 2010;2010:1–10.

2) Localization in cognitive radio

3) Cognitive radar: S. Haykin " Cognitive radar: a way for the future"

4) Exploiting multiple antennas for localization.

M.S. Thesis Proposal

What are the main components ?

1) Cover page: University, Department, Title of the research proposal, MS Thesis Proposal, Advisor, Student, Date.
2) Table of contents.
3) Introduction.
4) Few sections explaining the basic technical elements of your proposal.
5) Literature Review:

Rich and up-to-date
Avoid including junk references.
Most of the good conference papers are associated with related Journal papers. Unless the work is very new, try to reference the journal papers.
Identify the key words in your research. The key references should be very clear in your mind.
The literature survey should not be pieces of disconnected ideas. It should have a clear structure. Some students write their survey as paragraph per reference. This is not right!

6) Proposed Work: clear and doable
    6.1) Motivation.
    6.2) Problem Formulation: ....for example channel model , assumptions,...etc
    6.3) Preliminary results
    6.4) Possible applications, utilization,...etc
7) References:

Use IEEE details. I strongly advise you to use one of the supporting software (May be EndNotes (R) ).
Include all required details.
Do not use numbers. Refer to your reference using the first three letter of the first author family name and then two digits to represent the year. If the same author has more than one references paper in the same year use letters to indicate the first,.... For example [Muq03a] and [Muq03b] indicate two different references in 2003 by Muqaibel.
A short reference list is an indication of insufficient literature survey.

What is the size (weight) of a good proposal?

While the quality of the proposal is not measured by weight or number pages, the proposal should not be very short or too long. I have seen many proposals in he range of 25 pages (12 points font, 1.5 Spacing).

Can I get a sample proposal?

If this will not limit your creativity, you may visit my office in person and I will provide you with samples.

Suggested reading

A Personal Note on How to Start Research in Computer Networks:
Seven Steps on the Road to Success by Ahmed Helmy

http://ceng.usc.edu/~helmy/research-start.html

Typical Thesis Outline

Cover page (Formal Graduate School Page)
Dedication
Acknowledgment
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of abbreviations
List of Symbols
Abstract English
Abstract Arabic

1.1 Introduction and Motivation

1.2 Thesis Contribution

1.3 Organization of the Thesis

1.4 Literature Survey (updated)