Basic Course on Wireless Communications, 5 cr

Core content

• BASIC ELEMENTS OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
  - Basics of antennas;
  - Multiplexing and modulation methods;
  - Basic ideas of spread-spectrum and multicarrier techniques;
  - Multiple access techniques;
  - Medium access (MAC) protocols, WLAN MAC.
• PROPERTIES AND MODELING OF THE RADIO CHANNEL:
  - Path loss models;
  - Large-scale fading;
  - Small-scale fading.
• CELLULAR NETWORK CONCEPT:
  - Elements, structure and functionalities of a mobile radio network;
  - Basic radio network planning principles.
• PRINCIPLES OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS:
  - GSM, UMTS/HSPA, LTE, 5G, beyond 5G
  - WLAN/WiFi,
  - IoT, M2M
  - Broadcast networks;
  - Satellite communications;
  - Positioning systems (cellular network based, GPS, Galileo).
• RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BASICS:
  - Power control;
  - Handover (cell/sector, frequency, system);
  - Packet scheduling;
  - Access control mechanisms.
• FUTURE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
  - 5G concept
  - IoT concep
• BASICS OF WIRELESS POSITIONING
  - GNSS basics
  - cellular positioning basics
  - Wifi positioning basics

Complementary knowledge

• History of wireless communications.
• Statistical modelling of fading.
• Other wireless systems (RF-ID, Bluetooth,...)