Fall term 2005

Latest news: 04.10.2007 Exam results (3.9.2007) can be found here. 20.02.2006: Next exam on 15.5.2006 at 13-16 in S4, (check the hall                       for changes). Another exam will be held on autumn                       before the next course. 08.02.2006: Exam 10.01.06 results can be  found here. 16.01.2006: Final results here. 11.01.2006: Exercise results can be found here. 05.01.2006: Exam 19.12.2005 results are here. 03.01.2006: Some comments and corrections on the homework                       answers (1b, 9b and 10) here. 16.12.2005: Homework answers here 09.12.2005: Homework hint addition for HW 8 here 02.12.2005: Example exams Exam1, Exam 2 & Exam 3 (with solutions). 02.12.2005: Corrections for CDMA slides here. 02.12. 2005: General and obvious hint for the homework solutions:  If                         you explain what you do and what you understand you                        can obtain higher points, especially when your                        calculation contains an error. 18.11. 2005: There was a wrong assignment as homework 4. The                         homework 4 has been changed to the correct one.                                You may download the homeworks here. 15.11.2005: The homework problems are now published also on the                        web pages. You may download the file here. 11.11. 2005:The exercise session are held in S1 exept on 25.11.                        and 9.12. in S3 07.11.2005:The demoexercises and the HOMEWORK have been   delivered to EDITA 07.11. 2005:The exact DL for the HOMEWORK is 15.12. Check the    EeForum  for further information! 01.11.2005: Discuss and ask about the course in EeForum! 31.10.2005: Download course plan..

Course status

Old degree structure

• Compulsory course in option
• Networks and Systems
• Televiestintäjärjestelmät (Radio Communications Path)
• Communications Engineering 
• International Master’s Program in Telecommunications

• Elective course in option
• Product Design and User Interfaces in Communications
• Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing,
• Radio Engineering, 
• Signal Processing 
• Teletraffic Theory
• Televiestintäjärjestelmät (Other Paths than Radio Comm. Path)
  

 New degree structure:

• Compulsory course in the Bachelor degree program major subjects:
• Transmission systems in communications
• Networking technology
  

Course targets

The course gives basic knowledge about mobile communication systems and services, knowledge for future cellular radio network planners, operators and equipment designers about the possibilities and limitations of mobile traffic and services, the terminology used in mobile communication systems, principles of transmission methods used in mobile systems.

In addition, the student knows characteristics of presently used mobile communication systems.

The emphasis is on the radio access network.


Prerequisites

Old degree structure: S-72.245 Transmission Methods in Telecommunication Systems.

New degree structure: S-72.1140 Transmission Methods in Telecommunication Systems.


Teachers

Professor Sven-Gustav Hägg­man is the responsible teacher and lecturer of this course.

MSc Helka-Liina Määttänen takes care of the exercises and the responsibility for the course web-material.

Information about the course will be found on the web-address www.comlab.hut.fi/studies/2210/


Lectures and exercises

Lectured every academic year in Period II
Lectures starting on November 1 are held on

• Tuesdays 10 – 12 in Auditorium S4
• Fridays 12 – 14 in Auditorium S1.
  

Exercises starting on November 11 are held on

• Fridays 14 – 16 in Auditorium S1  exept on 25.11. and 9.12. in S3
  

There are 10 voluntary home-works, which will be checked and graded and they will give bonus to the final course grade.  Return the solutions to the course locker (2nd floor E-wing) by 15.12. The answers (not full solutions) will be published before the first exam (19.12.2005).


Requirements

The course is carried out with an exam and home assignments. The exam requirements consist of the material distributed to the students. The exam is a closed-book exam with one compulsory task and six tasks of which the four best answers are considered for the exam grade.

The tasks will be available in English and Finnish. The first exam is on December 19, 2005. Information about the following exams will be shown on the Departments web-pages.

Calculators are allowed and their use is recommendable. Otherwise the general exam rules in HUT are followed.


Final grade

The final course grade is the nearest integer to the
exam grade + 0.2*assignment grade.