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 in §17; Structure and contents
of the programme.
Exam
Exams
Name of exam | Wireless Communication Systems and Networks |
Type of exam | Written or oral exam |
ECTS | 5 |
Assessment | Passed/Not Passed |
Type of grading | Internal examination |
Criteria of assessment | The criteria of assessment are stated in the Examination
Policies and Procedures |