COURSES

Goals

The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with the knowledge in the field of wireless communications. The competencies of the students completing this course successfully will include the ability to analyze, synthesize and anticipate solutions and consequences, to gain the mastery over research methods, procedures and processes and a development of the critical judgment.

Curriculum

Introduction: history of wireless communication, overview of fixed and mobile wireless systems, spectrum, wireless services and applications Wireless Channel: propagation mechanisms, narrowband and wideband channel models, capacity, interference, fading, power and spectral efficiency Transceiver and Signal Processing: modulation and coding techniques, diversity, combining and equalization, optimal signal reception Network Aspects: radio network planning, radio signal coverage, mobility management, quality of service Software Defined Radio: reference models and system architectures, reconfigurability and network management New Air Interface Technologies: multiple access and cellular principles, OFDM, spread spectrum systems, multiple input multiple output systems, smartantennas Wireless Communication Systems: cellular systems, LEO, MEO, GEO satellite systems, High Altitude Platforms Second and Third Generation Mobile Systems: GSM, GPRS CDMA,, DECT, TETRA, UMTS, IMT-2000 technologies, wireless 3G IP network architectures, protocols and services Forth and Fifth Generation Systems: HSPA, LTE, WiMAX, 5G technologies and infrastructure Wireless Broadband Networks: overview of networks, standards, technologies, planning, applications and services Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: design principles and applications, protocol layers, energy constrained networks Security in Wireless Networks: authorization, identification, authentication, cryptographic algorithms