Aims

At the end of this lecture, the students will be able to
- simulate a cellular communication system and estimate its performance from these simulations (bit error rate, channel effects, interference effects)
- model terrestrial and earth-sky satellite channels
- design receivers for several types of mobiles systems and evaluate their performance

Main themes

Identical to the contents of the course

Content and teaching methods

- General description of terrestrial and satellite mobile (cellular communication systems)
- Multiple acces (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA)
- Modelling of the tropospheric channel
- Channel models for macro-, micro and pico-cellular systems
- Description and performance analysis of GSM
- Description of the GPS positionning system
- Description and performance of satellite communication systems
- Link budget for satellite communications
- CDMA : motivation, codes, rake receiver, multiuser receivers
- Description of the UMTS air interface. Performance of possible receivers. Impact of channel and co-channel interferences

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Teaching and learning methods
There will be lectures interleaved with practical training. There is project about the software implementation of a cellular communication system

Prerequisits
The complete "Telecommunications" module or equivalent background

Assessment
Written examination with exercices, with notes and evaluation of the project

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