The goals of this course are
- to understand and simulate the performance of wireless cellular communication system (bit error rate, impact of propagation channel and interferences),
- to model the wireless transmission channel, including multi-antenna propagation,
- to design a receiver for the considered application and estimate its performance.
Main themes
Identical to the contents of the course
Content and teaching methods
- Introduction to wireless communication system
- Mobile transmission channels (macrocells, microcells, picocells)
- Multi-antenna propagation
- Multiple access (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA)
- CDMA : motivation, coding, Rake-receiver, multi-user detection
- GSM system
- UMTS radio interface and receiver design; channel and interference related degradations
- OFDM systems
- MIMO systems
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
The course is based on lectures and exercices. The course also contains a project relative to the implementation of a cellular communication system on Matlab
The course is given in English
Prerequisits
ELEC1360 Telecommunications
Assessment
Evaluation will be based on the project and on an exam (written or oral)