ELT-41206 Basic Course on Wireless Communications, 5 cr

Additional information

Course page is on TUT Moodle2 The course is only intended for degree students

Person responsible

Elena-Simona Lohan, Mikko Valkama

Lessons

Learning Outcomes

In this course, the focus is on the basic techniques of the radio interface in all wireless systems and networks, on top of which, e.g., the Internet network protocols are built. Upon completing the course, the student can explain and compare the structures, principles, and possible applications of different wireless communication systems. More specifically, the student should be able to: - explain the general principles how the different phenomena in mobile radio channels have to be taken into consideration in the design of a reliable radio communication link; - compute the path loss encountered in wireless transmission, using basic path loss models - explain the whole transmission chain in a wireless communication or navigation system - describe the significance of different transmitter and receiver signal processing modules (coding, modulation, channel equalization,...) on the performance of a radio link; - describe the general principles of sharing the channel in duplex and multiuser radio communications, as well as basic operation of the most common medium access (MAC) protocols; - describe the general structure and main elements and functionalities of a cellular mobile communication system, as well as analyze the commonalities and differences in GSM, UMTS/HSPA, LTE , 5G and beyond 5G networks; - compute the load and capacity of basic cellular network configurations - explain the general principles how it is possible to extract useful information from radio signals for positioning applications - describe the concepts of Internet of Things, Machine-to-Machine Communications, and tactile Internet.

Content

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

For passing the course, passing the exam or both the midterm exams after each of the periods is required. In these, mainly the students understanding of the core content is tested and this defines the grade. If understanding of the core content has significant shortcomings, the student does not pass the course.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Study material

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content