Fall term 2005

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Course status

Old degree structure
This course did not exist in the old degree structure. Corresponding material included in several courses

New degree structure:
Compulsory course in the Master’s degree program major subject in the option Radio Communication Systems of the major subject Radio Communications

Course targets
The course gives basic knowledge about the structure and functionalities of a radio transceiver knowledge about source and channel coding methods and their impact on transceiver performance knowledge about modulation methods used in the radio link, modulator/demodulator structures and optimum receiver performance in the AWGN-channel and in the multipath fading channel principles of channel equalization and diversity methods and their impact on transceiver performance characteristics of multiple access methods in both circuit switched and packet switched radio transmission

Prerequisites
The course S-72.2245 Transmission Methods in Telecommunication Systems or corresponding is assumed.

Teachers
Professor Sven-Gustav Häggman is the responsible teacher and lecturer of this course.
Mika Nupponen is the web-master.
Information about the course will be found on the web-address www.comlab.hut.fi/opetus/3230/.

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

• Tuesdays 12 – 14 in Auditorium SE111
• Thursdays 12 – 16 in Auditorium SE110.
  

Exercises (totally 10 h) starting on November 10 are held according to the lecture plan. There are 10 home-works, which will be checked and graded and they will give bonus to the final course grade.

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 an open-book exam with six tasks of which the five best answers are considered for the exam grade. The tasks will be available in English and Finnish. The first exam is on December 20, 2005.
Information about the following exams will be shown on the Departments web-pages. Calculators are allowed and their use is highly 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