Course 214: Assisted GPS: Instant GPS and Indoor GPS

All course materials this year will be provided in a more portable,
secure electronic PDF format. We've heard your requests to lighten the
weight of travel home by eliminating heavy, spiral bound paper notebooks.
We want to provide a more dynamic & beneficial experience for all tutorial/course attendees. On-the-fly notations can be typed during your class using
the "Sticky Note" feature of Acrobat Reader 9 (provided for your convenience).
A laptop is required.

Take your notes To-Go and have them wherever you go.

Thank you to all attendees for your continued support and feedback over the past 25 years!

Instructor	Dr. Stephen Heppe, Telenergy, Inc.
Objectives	This course is for technical and scientific professionals and managers. It is structured along the lines of a Master’s-level curriculum in modern Communications Theory, with each hour summarizing the key concepts in a typical graduate-level course. Taken together, the six segments provide a technical summary of the key theories and techniques which underpin all modern radio and data communications systems -- including the GPS and augmented GPS navigation systems.
Prerequisites	An understanding of basic engineering terms and concepts is desirable. Most mathematical concepts are presented graphically, but some derivations are performed. Non-technical attendees will gain an understanding of the sub-domains and disciplines of modern Communications Theory. This course can be paired with courses on receiver design, jamming, modern GNSS signals, and unmanned aircraft.
Course Schedule	8:30 - Fundamentals Domain of Communications Engineering Estimation problems vs detection problems Layered hierarchy of communication systems Fundamentals of probability theory, transformation of random variables, Bayes' theorem 9:45 - Communications Theory I Survey of popular modulation techniques for communications and navigation systems Geometric representation of signals Receiver design and optimum decision rules The Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) detector Calculation of bit error rate and examples 11:00 - Communications Theory II Fourier analysis: time domain and frequency domain representation of signals Spread spectrum techniques and applications to navigation Interference analysis of overlapping signals BOC and MBOC codes 12:00 - Lunch on your own 1:30 - Coding Theory and Information Theory Historical perspective Correction and detection of errors Information content of signals Source coding and data compression Duality between source coding and channel coding 2:45 - Message Formatting and Network Transport Considerations Network and transport layer features Case studies: GPS, WAAS, and the Internet Security and authentication considerations Network delays and queueing theory 4:00 - Link Budget Analysis and Case Studies Link budget shell Impact of waveform, coding, diversity, and error sources Co-channel interference and adjacent channel interference Case studies: GPS and WAAS Summary and review 5:00 - Course Ends
Continuing Education Units	0.6 (6 hours)
Materials You Will Keep	• A USB Drive with PDF electronic course notes used during the course. Bringing a laptop is highly recommended; power access will be provided. Return to top of page