Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering) and Bachelor of Engineering (Telecommunication and Network Engineering)/ Bachelor of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering).

Aims & Objectives:

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

• Understand and use common mobile and personal communications terminology.
• Explain the behaviour of mobile communications systems and techniques.
• Analyse and critically evaluate performance of systems and sub-systems.
• Design systems to specified parameters, using analytical and empirical rules.

Teaching Methods:

Lecture (24 hrs), Tutorials (12 hrs) and Practical Classes (12 hrs)

Assessment:

Examination, Laboratory Reports

Content:

• Introduction to wireless communications.
• Cellular concepts, frequency reuse, interference and capacity, channel assignment, handover, trunking and GoS.
• Mobile radio signal propagation: large-scale path loss, shadowing, propagation models, link budgets.
• Small-scale fading and multipath propagation: factors causing small-scale fading, Doppler shifts, parameters of mobile channels, types of small-scale fading, models.
• Digital modulation for cellular mobile systems: Overview of factors influencing choice, line coding, pulse shaping, linear modulation (BPSK, DPSK, QPSK, OQPSK, Pi/4QPSK), constant envelope modulation (FSK, MSK, GMSK), QAM, CDMA (DS-SS).
• Multiple access systems and cellular standards: GSM, CDMA, WCDMA and capacity comparisons.
• Wireless PAN, LAN and MAN technologies including 802.11, 802.15, 802.16.

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