ELT-43456 Internet-of-Things Wireless Communications, 3 cr
Additional information
This course focuses on the requirements, enabling techniques, use cases and applications of the different Wireless Communications technologies for realizing and enabling the Internet-of-Things and Internet-of-Everything worlds.
For doctoral students, the scope of homeworks and project is more advanced compared to MSc students.
Suitable for postgraduate studies.
Person responsible
Elena-Simona Lohan, Mikko Valkama, Markku Renfors
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| ELT-43456 2018-01 | 4 |
Elena-Simona Lohan Markku Renfors Mikko Valkama |
Active participation in the lectures, written homeworks (lecture diary) and literature study or simulation project. For doctoral students, the scope of homeworks and project is more advanced compared to MSc students. |
Learning Outcomes
After passing this course, the students have good and comprehensive understanding of the potential, requirements, use cases and core enabling techniques for realizing the future Internet-of-Things (IoT) system and networks. Particular emphasis is on the wireless communications physical layer and radio system/network aspects techniques.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Different IoT requirements and use cases from wireless communications perspective * massive MTC * mission critical MTC * ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) and MTC | ||
| 2. | Enabling Wireless Communications methods and systems and their key features, characteristics, pros and cons, including: * low-range local area techniques (Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-wave, etc) for IoT systems * wider-range techniques (e.g. IEEE 802.11ah) for IoT systems * wide-area techniques at unlicensed/ISM bands (LoRa, SigFox) for IoT systems * wide-area cellular network based techniques available today, especially extended coverage GSM (EC-GSM), 3GPP LTE-M, 3GPP Narrowband IoT * wide-area cellular network based techniques currently in the R&D phase, especially 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) and massive MTC and mission-critical MTC solutions |
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Additional information | Examination material |
| Lecture slides | E.S. Lohan, M. Renfors, T. Levanen | No | ||||
| Lecture slides | Simona Lohan, Toni Levanen, Markku Renfors, Mikko Valkama | No |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| ELT-41206 Basic Course on Wireless Communications | Mandatory | |
| ELT-41307 Communication Theory | Advisable | |
| ELT-43106 Multicarrier and Multiantenna Techniques | Advisable |
Additional information about prerequisites
Basic understanding of existing mobile networks and associated digital communication technologies are essential prerequisites.
Correspondence of content
| Course | Corresponds course | Description |
| ELT-43456 Internet-of-Things Wireless Communications, 3 cr | ELT-43457 Internet-of-Things Wireless Communications, 5 cr |