Wireless Communications Systems (5 cr)

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.

Materials

Lecture material

Teaching methods

Lectures
Laboratory exercises (MATLAB exercises, practical measurements with mobile devices etc.)

Exam schedules

Exam will be held on last lecture, re-take possibilities will be communicated at the end of the course

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

Evaluation methods and criteria

Exam 0-5, 40 % of the grade
Home work / exercises 0-5, 60 % of the grade

Failed (0)

Exam not passed or not enough points from the exercises

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Understands the basics of different wireless systems and can use MATLAB for system-level analysis of wireless systems.

Assessment criteria, good (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.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Understands well the physical properties of wireless technologies and is able to analyze how they are related to the wireless system performance.