Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

The students must have insight in:

• Communication over shared wireless medium
• Layering in communication systems
• Baseband communication
• Information theoretic representation of wireless communication systems
• Waveforms and frequency
• Propagation, antennas and full receiver structure
• Cellular structure and spatial reuse
• General network models and architectures
• Routing and transport protocols; principles of congestion control

Skills

The students must have understanding of:

• Different multiple access protocols for wireless communication systems
• Separation of functionalities in different layers in a communication system
• Reliability of end-to-end data delivery and Quality of Service
• Feasibility evaluation of routing and transport strategies based on system properties and requirements
• Selection of relevant metrics to establish and estimate Quality of Service performance
• How modulation is used for transmitting data over a wireless channel and how the performance is impacted by interference and noise
• How wireless signals can be represented mathematically using complex baseband notation as well as information and communication theoretic models.
• How wireless data transmissions are mapped onto time and frequency resources
• Propagation phenomena such as path loss, multipath and shadowing and corresponding models as well as their impact on performance
• Implications of using multiple antennas in a wireless communication system

Competences

​​​​​The students must be able to

• design an abstract communication system chain and protocol stack, and justify the design choices in relation to the intended use case
• use relevant abstractions and models from information and communication theory to model the constituent parts of a communication system and quantify the expected performance of different communication system blocks

Type of instruction

Types of instruction are listed at the start of §17; Structure and contents of the programme.

Exam

Exams