Academic year2016/17
CourseTELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING
Code553II
Credits6
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| COMUNICAZIONI WIRELESS | ING-INF/03 | LEZIONI | 60 | |
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Knowledge
The student who successfully completes the course will have the capability to design and assess a wireless trasmission system intended to operate in a specific time- and/or frequency-dispersive scenario. He/she will be familiar with basic design-driving concepts such as channel coherence bandwidth or coherence time, and will be aware of techniques for power, interference and radio resource control in a wireless context. He/she will be able to estimate the capacity of a given wireless link configuration (possibly with muliple antennas), and to evaluate or propose approaches for power and capacity optimization. He/she will be aware of the operation of the main current technologies employed in wireless communications services.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
The student will be assessed on his/her demonstrated ability to discuss the main course contents and to solve simple related problems, using the appropriate terminology.
Methods:
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- participation in discussions
- individual study
Attendance: Not mandatory
Teaching methods:
- Lectures
- Task-based learning/problem-based learning/inquiry-based learning
Syllabus
The course is an introduction to the design, analysis and fundamental limits of wireless transmission systems. Initially some widely used wireless channel models are presented, accounting for time and/or frequency dispersion, and the concepts of coherence bandwidth and coherence time are introduced. Next the basics of mobile cellular networks are discussed along with cell planning criteria and interference-reduction techniques. The GSM, GPRS, UMTS systems are reviewed with emphasis on physical layer and medium access control issues. The family of standards IEEE 802.11 is also treated. The rest of the course is devoted to the MIMO techniques using the Shannon capacity bound as a proper metric to compare their expected performance. The physical properties of the channel leading to different power-diversity-multiplexing gains are analyzed with the aid of many examples.
Bibliography
Handouts delivered by the lecturer. Some basic textbooks are referenced in the handouts, and may change year by year.
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