Instructor: Prof. Ian Roberts
Fall Quarter 2025

Course Summary

This course combines foundational concepts from linear systems, signal processing, and probability/statistics to mathematically model wireless communication systems, establish the elegant techniques by which we communicate information, and assess the performance of such techniques. Ultimately, I hope this course is useful to you in obtaining an internship or full-time job, partaking in extracurricular projects, working in industry, and/or conducting research. It is a privilege to introduce you to wireless communication systems, and I am looking forward to class this quarter.

Software-Defined Radio Access

Some of my other courses, such as ECE 132A and 230B, offer students the opportunity to implement concepts learned in class lectures on software-defined radios (SDRs). Rather than provide each student with an SDR (or expect them to buy their own), a custom solution was developed by Prof. Ian Roberts and an undergraduate researcher in the Wireless Lab at UCLA. This solution is called RemoteRF, an active learning SDR platform that students can access from virtually anywhere at anytime via the UCLA network (or its VPN). More about the RemoteRF platform can be found on this page.

Although we will not be using these SDRs for lab assignments in ECE 239AS, you are welcome to access the RemoteRF platform for your own experimentation or for your course project. To familiarize yourself with RemoteRF, I recommend you complete the following lab.

I hope you enjoy this opportunity to apply fundamental concepts on actual wireless platforms.