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Course Catalog 2010-2011

TLT-6106 Basic Course on Wireless Communications, 5 cr

Person responsible

Elena-Simona Lohan, Markku Renfors

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Laboratory work
 3 h/week
 2 h/week

+3 h/week
+2 h/week
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TLT-6106 2010-01 Friday 13 - 16, S2
Friday 13 - 16, TB224
Wednesday 9 - 12, TB223
Friday 14 - 17, TB223

Requirements

Exam
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

In this course, the focus is on the techniques of the radio interface, 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 radio 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 detailed operation of the basic WLAN-MAC protocol; - 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 and UMTS networks; - compute the load and capacity of basic cellular network configurations (based on Erlang laws) - explain the general principles how it is possible to extract useful information from radio signals for positioning applications.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. BASIC ELEMENTS OF WIRELESS TRANSMISSION: - Basics of antennas; - Multiplexing and modulation methods; - Basic ideas of spread-spectrum and multicarrier techniques; - Multiple access techniques; - Medium access (MAC) protocols, WLAN MAC.   - History of wireless communications.   
2. PROPERTIES AND MODELING OF THE RADIO CHANNEL: - Path loss models; - Large-scale fading; - Small-scale fading.     
3. CELLULAR NETWORK CONCEPT: - Elements, structure and functionalities of a mobile radio network; - Radio network planning principles.      
4. PRINCIPLES OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: - GSM, UMTS; - WiFi, WiMAX, Bluetooth; - Broadcast networks; - Satellite communications; - Positioning systems (cellular network based, GPS, Galileo).   - DECT and Tetra systems. - ZigBee and WiBree systems - Other GNSS systems (BEIDOU/Compass, GAGAN, ...)   
5. RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: - Power control; - Handover (cell/sector, frequency, system); - Packet scheduling; - Access control mechanisms.     

Evaluation criteria for the course

Exam. Self-assessment.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Lecture slides   Basics of Wireless Communications   Tapani Ristaniemi, Markku Renfors, Jarno Niemelä            English  

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Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

Course home page: http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/TLT-6106

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
TLT-6106 2010-01 This course implementation is meant to give an overview of the wireless landscape nowaydays, focusing on first 2 OSI layers: physical and Medium Access Contral (MAC) layer. A wide range of technologies, modulations, and multiplexing schemes will be overviewed, with the scope of getting a good understanding of the today's status related to communication, navigation and wireless networks.        

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