Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering
Communications Laboratory

S-72.231 Mobile communication systems

Lectures year 2000

Course status
The course is lectured every academic year in the spring term. It is intended for fourth year students. The course can be included as a compulsory course in the major/minor subject Communication Systems and as optional course in the major/minor subjects Radio Engineering, Telecommunications Software, Telecommunications Technology, Teletraffic Theory. It is also included in the curriculum of the International Master’s Program in Telecommunications.

Course targets
The course gives basic knowledge about mobile communication systems and networks, so that a future planners, operators and equipment designers of mobile communication networks know about the possibilities and limitations introduced by mobile traffic and services, know the terminology, the implementation methods of the system radio interface, and the planning methods for these radio networks. In addition, he/she knows the structure of presently used mobile communication systems, and knows about new system under development.

Prerequisites
It is assumed that the participants have done S-72.420 Design Methodology in Telecommunication Systems (3 credits) or its predecessor S-72.322 Communication Systems (3 credits)

Teachers
Professor Sven-Gustav Hägg-man is the responsible teacher of this course.

Lectures and exercises
Lectures are held on Fridays 12-4 p.m. in the Auditorium S5. Separate exercises hours are not held, but typical problems and their solutions are shown interleaved with the lectures.

Assigment
The course includes a compulsory assignment which is done in two persons’ teams. In the assignment is done a radio network plan for a fictive service area. In the assignment should the planning methods taught in the lectures be applied.

Requirements
The course is carried out by an exam and an assignment. The exam requirements consist of the material distributed to the students. The first exam is on May 22, 2000, and the next exam will be in autumn 2000.

Final grade
The final course grade is calculated from the formula:

                    Final grade =  (2Texam + Tassignment)/3

Both the exam and assignment grade should be accepted.

Literature:

• Lecture material.

 

 

Following text book can provide background material:

• William C. Jakes: Microwave Mobile Communications, USA 1974, Wiley, 642pp.
• William C. Lee: Mobile Communication Engineering, USA 1982, McGraw-Hill, 464pp.
• Michel Mouly, Marie-Berna-dette Pautet: The GSM System for Mobile Communications France 1992, Published by authors, 699pp.
• Raymond Steele (Ed): Mobile Radio Communications, Great Britain 1992, Pentech Press, 779pp.
• David Parsons: The Mobile Radio Propagation Channel, Great Britain 1992, Pentech Press, 316pp.
• William C. Lee: Mobile Communications Design Fundamentals, 2nd ed. USA 1993, Wiley, 372pp.
• Jean-Paul Linnartz: Narrowband Land-Mobile Radio Networks, Boston 1993, Artech House, 345pp.
• Garry C. Hess: Land-Mobile Radio System Engineering, Boston 1993, Artech House, 371pp.
• William C. Lee: Mobile Cellular Telecommunications Systems, 2nd edition Singapore 1995, Mc Graw-Hill, 449pp
• Kazimierz Siwiak: Radiowave propagation and antennas for personal communications Norwood MA 1995, Artech House, 320pp.
• Andrew J. Viterbi: CDMA, principles of spread spectrum communications USA 1995, Addison-Wesley, 245pp.
• Theodore S. Rappaport: Wireless communications, Principles & practice USA 1996, IEEE Press, 641 pp.
• Gordon L. Stüber: Principles of mobile communications USA 1996, Kluwer, 664pp.
• Asha Mehrota: GSM System Engineering USA 1998?, Artech House, xxx pp
• Wideband CDMA for third generation mobile communications, Editors: Tero Ojanperä, Ramjee Prasad USA 1998, Artech House, 439 pp

    Journals:

        1. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
        2. IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
        3. IEEE Transactions on Communications
        4. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications
        5. IEEE Communications Magazine
        6. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
        7. IEE Proceedings, Part F
        8. IEE Electronics & Communications
        9. European Transactions on Communications
        10. Journal of Wireless Information Networks
        11. IEICE Transactions on Communications
        12. Electronics Letters
        13. British Telecom Technology Journal
        14.  Wireless Personal Communications

    Conference proceedings:

        1. Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC
        2. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
        3. IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, ICUPC
        4. Multi-Dimensional Mobile Communications, MDMC
        5. Nordic seminar on Digital Mobile Radio communications, DMR
        6. International Conference on Communications, ICC
        7. Globecom
 

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