Course Syllabus

Preparation

CyberPowder Intro

POWDER Concepts & Workflow

Basic POWDER experiment

• L1: Program Overview (NP)
• L2: POWDER Overview (DJ)
• IH 1 (Spectrum monitoring) - Part 1 (before class)

POWDER Profiles, Resources & Reservations;

Mobile networking

Read

• TPM: Section 6, Section 7, Section 9, Section 15
• P5G-SA: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

Released:

• HH 1 (git-backed profile)

• L3: POWDER Workflow Essentials (KW)
• IH2: POWDER Workflow Essentials (gitlab version, GitHub version) (KW)
• L4: 5G Intro & Architecture (KV)

Digital communications / modulation fundamentals 

Read:

• Background on Digital Communications

Released:

• HH 2: Receiver design for 16 QAM (in Python w/ recorded IQ data)

• D1: Shout measurement framework (KW)
• L5: Modulation and coding, PHY and radio transmission (NP)
• IH3: Hands on Receiver design

Wireless fundamentals

Read:

• P5G-SA: Chapter 3 (slides)

Released:

• A 1: Initial research idea/plan (slides)

• L6: Multipath fading, fading mitigation methods -- OFDM and SS, channel measurement (NP)
• IH4: OTA channel impulse response measurement (CJ)

Mobile Radio Access Network & Mobile Core

Read:

• P5G-SA: Chapter 4 (slides) & Chapter 5 (slides)

• L7: Mobile RAN & Core (KV) 
• IH5: (End-to-end 5G SA) - Part 1 (before class) (slides)
• IH5: (End-to-end 5G SA) - Part 2 (in class)
• IH5: (End-to-end 5G SA) - Part 3 (in class/at home)

Research Evaluation, & Artifact Creation

• IH6: Package Research Artifact - Part 1: Evaluating Experiments in the Wireless World (RR)

Research Evaluation, & Artifact Creation

• L8.5 (RR): Reproducible Experimentation in the Wireless World 

Open RAN

Read:

• O-RAN_ieee.pdf (to the end of Section V)

• L9: O-RAN (slides) (KV)
• IH7: O-RAN (DJ) (slides)
• IH7: O-RAN - Part 1 (*before class*)
• IH7: O-RAN - Part 2 (in class)
• IH7: O-RAN - Part 3 (at home)

Open RAN + ML

Read:

• O-RAN_ieee.pdf (Section VI)

• L10: O-RAN + ML (DM) (slides) (board)
• IH8: O-RAN + ML Part 1 (*before class*)
• IH8: O-RAN + ML Part 2 (in class/at home)

Open RAN + ML

Read:

• Understanding Deep Learning, Chapters 1 (Introduction) and 2 (Supervised Learning)

• L11: O-RAN + ML (DM) (slides)
• IH9: O-RAN + ML (in class/at home)

Spectrum management

Read:

• POWDER_RDZ_ieee.pdf

• L12: RDZ + ZMS (KV,DJ)
  • Slides
• IH10: OpenZMS (DJ)
  
  • IH10: Spectrum Management (POWDER-RDZ, OpenZMS) - Part 1 (at start or just before class)
  • IH10: Spectrum Management (POWDER-RDZ, OpenZMS) - Part 2 (in class, at home)

Spectrum management

Plan-from-here slides

Read (if time):

• Run Spectrum Sharing Demos (RDZ-in-RDZ mode)
  
  • (We will run this over-the-air RDZ-in-RDZ demo in teams of three in class.)

Released: A 2: Updated research idea/plan (new version)

• L12: ZMS, RDZ-in-RDZ (DJ)
  • Slides
• IH11: RDZ-in-RDZ, ZMS over-the-air (DJ)
  • Part 1 (in class)
  • Part 2 (in class)

A 2: Updated research idea/plan and A3: Information related to in-person exploration due on Wednesday.