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Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
COMM.SYS.710

Internet-of-Things Wireless Communications, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Course code
COMM.SYS.710
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
Pass-Fail
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Sergey Andreev
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Electrical Engineering Studies 100 %
Core content
  • Different IoT requirements and use cases from wireless communications perspective
    * massive MTC
    * mission critical MTC
    * ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) and MTC
  • Enabling Wireless Communications methods and systems and their key features, characteristics, pros and cons, including:
    * low-range local area techniques (Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-wave, etc) for IoT systems
    * wider-range techniques (e.g. IEEE 802.11ah) for IoT systems
    * wide-area techniques at unlicensed/ISM bands (LoRa, SigFox) for IoT systems
    * wide-area cellular network based techniques available today, especially extended coverage GSM (EC-GSM), 3GPP LTE-M, 3GPP Narrowband IoT
    * wide-area cellular network based techniques currently in the R&D phase, especially 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) and massive MTC and mission-critical MTC solutions
  • Ultra reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) concept
  • Synchronization, modulation, and multiple access issues in IoT
  • Practical examples of short-, medium-, and long-range IoT applications
  • Link budget computations in IoT
Learning outcomes
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Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Participation in the lectures, homework via Moodle for each lecture/topic area, and a small final project (e.g., literature study and short video presentation on a chosen topic). For doctoral students, the scope of the project is more advanced and a short presentation together with a 3-4 page report following IEEE publication guidelines is required.

Participation in teaching

03.03.2025 30.05.2025
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)