Content (Syllabus outline)
• Introduction: an overview of mobile and fixed wireless systems and services, fixed, mobile, stratospheric, and satellite networks.
• Radio communications: radio channel models, multiple access TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDM, spread spectrum, modulation and coding techniques, dynamic channel allocation, adaptive and diversity receive.
• New air interface technologies in 4G and 5G networks: single-carrier SC-FDMA modulation, OFDMA, FBMC, NOMA, PDMA.
• Second generation mobile systems: GSM, DECT, TETRA, mobile satellite systems, stratospheric platforms.
• Third generation mobile systems: IMT-2000 recommendations, UMTS, wideband code division multiple access, network architectures, modulation, and coding techniques.
• Fourth generation mobile systems: IMT-Advanced recommendations, LTE, LTE-Advanced, radio access.
• Fifth generation mobile systems: IMT-2020 recommendations5G, network architecture, devices, services.
• Wireless data networks: WPAN, WLAN, WMAN, WWAN, standards, products, technologies, services
• Broadband wireless access: IEEE 802.11, WiFi, IEEE 802.16 WiMAX.
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 as tutorials in frontal form, where students consolidate theoretical knowledge by solving arithmetic tasks.
• Laboratory exercises: are performed in a laboratory, where students use software tools to analyze the behavior of wireless networks and select appropriate modulation and coding procedures for wireless networks.
• Homeworks: students consolidate theoretical knowledge acquired in lectures and tutorials by solving homework assignments, which they submit in writing throughout the semester.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
• recognize and classify different kinds of mobile and fixed wireless networks,
• use development tools for analysis of mobile and fixed wireless networks,
• design the model of a wireless telecommunication network,
• explain the physical basis of radio wave propagation and the technology of radio interfaces in wireless networks
Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes
• Communication skills: oral lab work defense, manner of expression at the written examination.
• Use of information technology: use of software tools for analysis of wireless networks.
• Calculation skills: performing basic calculations in determining the elements of wireless network and radio signal coverage.
• Problem-solving: identification of appropriate modulation and coding procedures of wireless networks.
Readings
• A. F. Molisch: Wireless Communications, Reprinted with corrections, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2006.
• A. Elnashar & M. El-saidny: Practical guide to LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT: paving the way towards 5G, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2018.
