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Course Catalog 2011-2012
TLT-6106 Basic Course on Wireless Communications, 5 cr |
Additional information
Course home page: http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/TLT-6106
Person responsible
Elena-Simona Lohan, Markku Renfors
Lessons
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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:
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 |
Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses
More precise information per implementation
| Implementation | Description | Methods of instruction | Implementation |
| This course implementation is meant to give an overview of the wireless landscape nowadays, focusing on first 2 OSI layers: physical and Medium Access Control (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. |