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Aalto University Comnet
S-72.2211 Mobile Communication Systems and Services
Course Plan Spring 2013 Olav Tirkkonen, Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University
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Course Information
Prerequisites
S-72.2205 Digital Transmission Methods or corresponding knowledge on digital communications
Teachers Professor Olav Tirkkonen Responsible teacher and lecturer MSc Furqan Ahmed excercises and home assignments Lecture and excercise schedule
Lectures and exercises
Mondays 10.15-12 in Auditorium S1 Wednesdays 10.15-12 in Auditorium S3 Fridays 10-12 in Auditorium S2
14 lectures, 5 excercise sessions interleaved over these times, see last slide
Course carried out with exam and home assignments
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Exam
3 tasks are calculations, 2 tasks essay-type exam can be written in Finnish, Swedish or English
Requirements: material distributed to students Closed book exam with five tasks Tasks available in English
Three exams per academic year
First exam Tue March 5, 2013, 13-16, hall S4 Second exam Wed May 29, 2013, 13-16, hall S4 Third exam is in fall, October-November exam period (likely) Next exams after these in 2014
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Dates of following exams posted on into-pages of school
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Course Grading
Home work
Integral part of the course Home assignments
analytic calculations
Programming assignments
analysis using a matlab platform of an individual assignment short report written explaining and analysing the results
Grade
The exam is graded from 0 to 4
with 1-digit accuracy, maximum 4.4
The assignments are graded from 0 to 1
1-digit accuracy
The course grade is min(round(exam grade + assignment grade), 5)*min(round(exam grade),1)
at least grade 1 is required from the exam grade 5 possible only with good exam grade and good assignment grade
The home and programming assignments are only counted towards the grade in the year they are done i.e. for the exams in 2013
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Literature
Lecture handouts distributed in Noppa
Slide handouts by O. Tirkkonen partial lecture notes by S.-G. Hggman
Textbook
Jochen Schiller: Mobile Communications, Addison-Wesley 2003, Chapters 1-4. Andrea Goldsmith: Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press 2005, Chapters 1,2,9,13-15.
Background material
G. Stber: Principles of mobile communications, Kluwer 2001. H. Holma & A. Toskala (Ed:) WCDMA for UMTS, Radio access for third generation mobile communications, Wiley 2001.
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Course Targets
what a mobile communication system is System engineers understanding of components and functions of a mobile communication system core network, radio access network mobility: roaming, handover random access, synchronization, paging, system information channel structures
Qualitative understanding of
logical and physical channels control, dedicated and shared channels
physical layer, MAC layer, network layer, service layer
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Course Targets II
Quantitative understanding of
the role of interference in cellular networks coverage & throughput; system simulation link budget analysis mobile radio channel path loss, slow fading effects
Understanding of characteristics of present and future mobile communication systems
The role of standards services driving specification and evolution 2G: GSM, GPRS 3G: WCDMA, HSPA towards 4G
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Week 3, 14.1.--18.1. 4, 21.1.--25.1. Mo 10-12, S1 5, 28.1. 1.2
Course Timetable
Wed 10-12, S3
Lecture 1: Course plan, Cellular System basics; channelization. Lecture 4: Link budget, system channel models Lecture 2: Duplexing; Interference, Physical Layer modeling Excercise 1: Link budget
Fri 10-12, S2
Lecture 3: Radio Resource Management Lecture 5: Mobility Management
Lecture 6: System deployment models, reuse
Lecture7: CDMA principles
Excercise 2: System modeling Introduction to Matlab assignments Lecture 10: GSM Channel structure
6, 4.2. 8.2.
Lecture 8: CDMA capacity; Services Lecture 11: 2.5G
Lecture 9: Generations; GSM Physical Layer Excercise 3: CDMA & power control
7, 11.2. 15.2. 8, 18.2 -- 22.2. 9, 25.2. 1.3.
Excercise 4: Various topics
Lecture 12: UMTS services and NW architecture Lecture13: WCDMA air interface
Q&A session, assignments
Excercise 5: HARQ & AMC
Lecture 14:3.5G, 4G systems, course wrapup
Deadline for Home assignments and matlab asignments 23:59
