Study Guide

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.)

International connections

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

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.

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam 0-5, 50 % of the grade
Home work / exercises 0-5, 50 % of the grade

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.