S-72.232
Radio Communication
Systems
2 cr.
Spring term 2005
Registration for the course is done
with Topi.
FIRST LECTURE ON THURSDAY
27.1.2005, 14-16, S5.
NEWS: Exam 6.9.2005) results can be found here.
NEWS: Exam & exercise results
can be found here.
NEWS: Exam date changed. New date
is 12.5. 16-19 halls S1 S4.
NEWS: Exercise points (2004) can
be found here.
NEWS: Exam (13.09.2004) results
can be found here.
NEWS: Exam 11.5.2004 results can
be found here.
ERROR in Homework
1.
Exercise 1 is now corrected.
Exercises:
Old Exams:
Course presentation, spring
term 2005
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.
After the course the student knows
- 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 radio link budget is a simple
instrument for this purpose,
- 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
requirements consist of the material distributed to the
students.
There will be two exams, the first exam is on May 13, 2005, and the second exam will be in autumn 2005.
- The exam consists of two parts.
The first
part is done with closed books, and it comprises two tasks where
general
principles, definitions etc. are asked for.
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:
Final grade = Texam +
0.2Texercises
- 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. 4th ed. Mc Graw-Hill 2002, 850p.
[3] S. Haykin:
Communication
systems. 3rd ed. Wiley 1994, 872p.
[4] J.G.
Proakis: Digital
Communications, 4th 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.
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