Objectives and competences
The objective of course is that students will understand the basics of wireless and mobile networks, and to know their main characteristics and services.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction: an overview of mobile and fixed wireless systems and services, fixed, mobile, stratospheric, and satellite networks.
• Radio communications: radio channel models, multiple access TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDM, spread spectrum, modulation and coding techniques, dynamic channel allocation, adaptive and diversity receive.
• New air interface technologies in 4G and 5G networks: single-carrier SC-FDMA modulation, OFDMA, FBMC, NOMA, PDMA.
• Second generation mobile systems: GSM, DECT, TETRA, mobile satellite systems, stratospheric platforms.
• Third generation mobile systems: IMT-2000 recommendations, UMTS, wideband code division multiple access, network architectures, modulation, and coding techniques.
• Fourth generation mobile systems: IMT-Advanced recommendations, LTE, LTE-Advanced, radio access.
• Fifth generation mobile systems: IMT-2020 recommendations5G, network architecture, devices, services.
• Wireless data networks: WPAN, WLAN, WMAN, WWAN, standards, products, technologies, services
• Broadband wireless access: IEEE 802.11, WiFi, IEEE 802.16 WiMAX.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures: are conducted as classical lectures in frontal form, where students get to know the theoretical contents of the course.
• Tutorials: are conducted as tutorials in frontal form, where students consolidate theoretical knowledge by solving arithmetic tasks.
• Laboratory exercises: are performed in a laboratory, where students use software tools to analyze the behavior of wireless networks and select appropriate modulation and coding procedures for wireless networks.
• Homeworks: students consolidate theoretical knowledge acquired in lectures and tutorials by solving homework assignments, which they submit in writing throughout the semester.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
• recognize and classify different kinds of mobile and fixed wireless networks,
• use development tools for analysis of mobile and fixed wireless networks,
• design the model of a wireless telecommunication network,
• explain the physical basis of radio wave propagation and the technology of radio interfaces in wireless networks
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• Communication skills: oral lab work defense, manner of expression at the written examination.
• Use of information technology: use of software tools for analysis of wireless networks.
• Calculation skills: performing basic calculations in determining the elements of wireless network and radio signal coverage.
• Problem-solving: identification of appropriate modulation and coding procedures of wireless networks.
Readings
• A. F. Molisch: Wireless Communications, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2010.
• H. Holma, A. Toskala: WCDMA for UMTS – HSPA Evolution and LTE, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2010.
• E. Dahlman, S. Parkvall, J. Skold: 4G: LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband, Academic Press, Oxford, 2011.
• J. Rodriguez: Fundamentals of 5G Mobile Networks, John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
• A. Alexiou: 5G Wireless Technologies, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017.
Prerequisits
Recommended is basic knowledge of telecommunication networks.
Additional information on implementation and assessment The written exam may be substituted with continuous knowledge testing and assessment.
