Objectives and competences
The objective of the course is that students will understand the most important technologies of wireless networks and be able to use them in planning in specific cases.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction: an overview of fixed and mobile wireless systems, fixed, mobile, stratospheric, and satellite networks.
• Radio communications: radio wave propagation, radio channel models, capacity, power, spectral efficiency, multiple access, modulation, and coding techniques.
• Second, third and fourth generation of mobile networks: GSM, TETRA, UMTS, LTE, LTE-Advanced.
• Fifth generation of mobile networks: 5G, network architecture, devices, services, connecting a 5G network, and Internet of Things devices.
• Wireless data networks: WPAN, WLAN, WMAN, WWAN, standards, products, technologies, services.
• Wireless Personal Area Networks: IEEE 802.15.1, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee, wireless USB, near field communication - NFC.
• Wireless Local Area Networks: IEEE 802.11 family standards, planning, analyzing, and adjusting the wireless local area network.
Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures: are conducted as classical lectures in frontal form, where students get to know the theoretical contents of the course.
• Tutorials: are conducted in frontal form, where students are introduced to work on laboratory exercises.
• Laboratory exercises: students consolidate theoretical knowledge acquired in lectures by solving practical examples.
• Homeworks: students consolidate theoretical knowledge acquired in lectures by solving homework assignments, which they submit in writing throughout the semester.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to
• analyze the different kinds of wireless networks,
• evaluate the physical characteristics of wireless communications,
• use development tools for radio network planning,
• design interworking of wireless and fixed networks of next generation.
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• Communication skills: oral lab work defense, manner of expression at the tests or written exam.
• Use of information technology: use of software tools for wireless network planning.
• Calculation skills: performing basic calculating operations in frequency band calculation.
• Problem-solving: determining appropriate modulation and coding schemes, and choosing proper protocols for network interconnection.
Readings
• A. F. Molisch: Wireless Communications, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2010.
• Y. Xiao, Y. Pan: Emerging wireless LANs, wireless PANs, and wireless MANs : IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16 wireless standard family, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
• E. Dahlman, S. Parkvall, J. Skold: 4G: LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband, Academic Press, Oxford, 2011.
• J. Rodriguez: Fundamentals of 5G Mobile Networks, John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
• A. Alexiou: 5G Wireless Technologies, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017.
Prerequisits
Recommended is basic knowledge of mobile and fixed telecommunications networks.
Additional information on implementation and assessment The written exam may be substituted with continuous knowledge testing and assessment.
