Course Catalog 2013-2014
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Course Catalog 2013-2014

ELT-41006 Introduction to Communications Engineering, 3 cr

Additional information

The course targeted to the first-year students of Master's Degree Program in Electrical Engineering.

Person responsible

Markku Renfors

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
Assignment
  4 h/week
 2 h/week
 2 h/week


 


 


 


  		ELT-41006 2013-01 Tuesday 12 - 13, S2
Tuesday 13 - 14, S4
Thursday 14 - 16, TB111
Tuesday 12 - 14, S1

Requirements

Successfully completed assignments.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student has basic understanding of the nature and challenges of wireless communication system development at different protocol layers: analog circuits, signal processing, radio resource management and radio network planning, and internet protocols. Student has gained experience on utilizing the mathematical tools as well as using Matlab to solve related mathematical problems. Student is able to explain basic principles of scientific writing and prepare a short report accordingly. Student has also gained experience on finding information from relevant sources.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Overview of different types of radio communication systems.      
2. Elements of a wireless communication systems: modulation, coding, channel models, cellular network principles.     
3. Analog circuits for digiital communications. Challenges of integrated RF circuits.      
4. Basics of Internet networking.      

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

Quality of assignment reports.

Assessment scale:

Evaluation scale passed/failed will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Prerequisite relations (Requires logging in to POP)



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
ELT-41006 Introduction to Communications Engineering, 3 cr TLT-1406 Introduction to Communications Engineering, 3 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
ELT-41006 2013-01 The course is meant for the first-year students of the International Masters' Program in Electrical Engineering.        

Last modified17.09.2013