Program

Staff

Lectures

Literature
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Exercises:

• Exercise1
• Exercise2
  
• Exercise3
• Exercise4
  
• Exercise5
• Exercise6
• Exercise7

• Exam 1
• Exam 2
  

Course status:
Radio Communication Systems can be included as a compul­sory course in the major/minor subject Communication Systems and Televiestintä­jär­jes­­tel­mät and as a optional course in the major/minor subject Radio Engineering and Signal Processing in Telecommunications. It is also included in the curri­culum of the International Master’s Program in Telecommunications.

Course targets:
The starting point is the planning of the physical transmission link using a radio system, which includes base-band and RF parts of the radio transceivers, antennas and feeders, and the radio path.

The main goal is to provide information for radio link budget calculations in radio link and network planning, so that the student is able to choose system solutions, which will guarantee that the radio communication system will fulfil given specifications.

• typical radio communication systemns and environments
• impact of radio channel fading on information transmission
• fading countermeasures and their performance
• radio noise and equipment impairments
• radio link budget and system planning

• the determination of the gains and attenuations of the different terms in the budget will require deep knowledge of the performance of the different transmission methods.
  
• the application of it to system planning requires under­standing of the interactions between the used transmission methods and algo­rithms.

Prerequisites:
S-72.245 Transmission Methods in Telecommunication Systems. 

Lectures and exercises:
These are held weekly at the following times in spring term 2005:

            Thursdays    14 – 16, S5
            Fridays        10 – 12, S3

The lecture plan is attached. Possible changes are announced on the course homepage (http://www.comlab.hut.fi/opetus/232/index.html) and on the informa­tion board on floor E3.

In the exercises demonstrative problems and solving methods are presented. In each exercise a homework is given, which should be returned for checking and grading. The scores will have an impact on the final course grade.

Teacher:
The course is lectured by professor Sven-Gustav Hägg­man, who is the responsible teacher of this course. The exercises are also held by him.

Contents:  

1.            Radio spectrum issues and typical radio communication systems

2.            Propagation mechanisms

3.            Characterization of the linear time-variant channel

4.            Radio transceiver architectures and transmission methods

5.            Viterbi equalizer

6.            Suboptimal equalizers

7.            Diversity methods

8.            Non-idealities and disturbances in radio communication systems

9.            Application of radio link budget to radio system planning

 
All the above topics will not be deeply treated in the lectures. Instead the lectures will be concentrated on topics which have been considered to be difficult. If needed, the plan may be changed.

Requirements:

• The course is carried out by an exam.

• The exam consists of two parts.

After the answers have been given to the exam monitor, the three problem-oriented tasks of the second part are given to the student. In this part the use of arbitrary source material is allowed except for team work between the students or another persons.

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

• The exam grade should be accepted.

 
Literature:

[1]    Lecture and exercise material (will be distributed through Edita)

        Relevant material can  be found from the following books:

[2]    A.B. Carlson, P.B. Crilly, J.C. Rutledge: Communications systems. An introduction to signals and noise in electrical communication. 4^th ed. Mc Graw-Hill 2002, 850p.

[3]    S. Haykin: Communication systems. 3rd ed. Wiley 1994, 872p.

[4]    J.G. Proakis: Digital Communications, 4^th ed. Mc Graw-Hill, 2001, 1002p.

[5]    L. Ahlin, J. Zander: Principles of Wireless Communications. Lund 1997, Studentlitteratur, 527p.

[6]    I.A. Glover, P.W. Grant: Digital Communications, Prentice Hall 1998, 734p.

[7]    S. Benedetto, E. Biglieri: Principles of digital transmission with wireless    
        applications, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 1999, 855p.

[8]   S. Haykin, M. Moher: Modern Wireless Communications, Prentice Hall 2004, 560p.

The books are not necessary for carrying out the course.
Books [1] and [2] are intended as first-level books on communications, while books [4] and [7] go into deeper treatment of different transmission methods, and can also be used in post-graduate studies. The books by Ahlin and Zander [5] and Haykin and Moher [8] correspond quite well to our approach, but will, however, only partly cover this course.