Wireless Technologies (5 cr)
Code: 5051246-3003
General information
- Enrollment
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01.06.2022 - 09.10.2022
Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
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29.09.2022 - 22.12.2022
Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Engineering and Business
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology
- Degree Programme in Information and Communication Technology
- Teachers
- Tero Jokela
- Juha Kalliovaara
- Teacher in charge
- Juha Kalliovaara
- Groups
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PTIVIS20TData Networks and Cybersecurity
- Course
- 5051246
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
Different wireless systems (e.g. WLAN, TV, Mobile, IoT), newest technologies (5G, NB-IoT etc. frequency allocations, use of radio spectrum, radio waves, propagation and attenuation, propagation modeling, link budget, fading, antennas, building blocks of wireless communication systems (ADC/DAC, modulation, coding, interleaving, encryption), laboratory exercises (antennas, propagation modeling, coding, connection to systems in use, e.g. LoRaWAN, BT, BLE or WLAN), measurements in test network.
Objective
After completing the course the student:
- understands different ways of transferring signals in wireless communication systems
- understands the nature of radio waves and their propagation principles
- understands the problems concerning wireless transmission
- understands noise behaviour and its influence
- can estimate link budgets
- is familiar with measurement equipment and antennas
Content
- frequency allocations,
- use of radio spectrum,
- radio waves, propagation and attenuation,
- link budget, noise, antennas,
- different wireless systems (f.ex. WLAN, TV, Mobile, IoT), newest technologies (5G, nb-IoT etc.)
- Laboratory exercises (antennas, connection to systems in use, f.ex. LoRaWAN, BT, BLE or WLAN etc.)
Materials
Lesson material mainly,
reading:
Wireless Communications Systems Design, Haesik Kim
Principles of mobile communication, Gordon L. Stüber
5G Wireless Technologies, Angeliki Alexiou
Teaching methods
Lessons
Laboratory exercises (MATLAB exercises, practical measurements with mobile devices etc.)
Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development
Topics are covered in lessons and confirmed with laboratory works and practical measurements.
Student workload
Lessons and laboratory works 50 h
Homeworks and preparations for labs and exam 85h
Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet
Exam 0-5, 50 % of the grade
Home work / exercises 0-5, 50 % of the grade
Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1-2)
Understands the basics of different wireless systems and can use MATLAB for system-level analysis of wireless systems.
Arviointikriteerit, hyvä (3-4)
Understands the high-level operation of 4G and 5G mobile networks, radio propagation and can conduct measurements in wireless networks and analyze their results.
Arviointikriteerit, kiitettävä (5)
Understands well the physical properties of wireless technologies and is able to analyze how they are related to the wireless system performance.