1 Semester or equivalent

48 Hours

Hawthorn

Nil

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Graduate Certificate of Science (Network Systems), Graduate Diploma of Science (Network Systems) and Master of Science (Network Systems).

Aims & Objectives:

Students who successfully complete this unit of study will be able to:

• Understand the key ideas in modern mobile telecommunications systems and networks.
• Understand the design principles behind modern mobile telecommunications systems and networks.
• Be able to analyse the performance of mobile telecommunications networks.
• Appreciate the interaction between the radio, signalling, traffic, and fixed network aspects of mobile telecommunications networks.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures (24 hrs), Tutorial (12 hrs), Practical Classes (12 hrs)

Assessment:

Examinations, Laboratory Reports

Content:

• Principles of mobile communications: frequency reuse, spectral efficiency, handover, interaction with the fixed network.
• Microcells and macrocells.
• The mobile radio channel: propagation models. 
• Fast and slow fading.
• Principles of operation of FDMA, TDMA and spread spectrum.
• Capacity and traffic calculations for these systems.
• Switching and signalling for mobile networks.
• Standards for mobile communications: GSM, cdmaOne, cdma2000, WCDMA.
• Wireless data: GPRS, EDGE, WAP, Bluetooth.

Reading Materials:

Rappaport, TS, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Prentice Hall, 1996.
Holma, H & Toskala, A, (eds), WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications, John Wiley, 2000.