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 wireless communication systems
- Multiple acces (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA)
- Channel models for macro-, micro and pico-cellular systems
- Description and performance analysis of GSM
- Channel models for multi-antenna systems
- Description and performance of multi-antenna (MIMO) systems
- CDMA : motivation, codes, rake receiver, multiuser receivers
- Description of the UMTS air interface. Performance of possible receivers. Impact of channel and co-channel interferences
- OFDM systems

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
ELEC1360 Telecommunications

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

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