Mobile Communications Course code: 111207 | 6 ECTS credits
Basic information
Level of Studies:
Year of Study:
3
Semester:
5
Requirements:
Knowledge of fundamental communication theory
Goal:
Getting to know advanced techniques and principles in digital communications with an emphasis on techniques used in mobile telecommunication systems.
Outcome:
Understanding of signal processing used in digital telecommunications and getting acquainted with GSM and WCDMA standards.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
- History, services, requirements, and technical challenges.
- Antennas and propagation of electromagnetic waves.
- Fading and multipath wave propagation.
- Principles of cellular radio networks.
- Interference and system capacity. Traffic intensity.
- Modulation and demodulation: ASK,PSK, FSK, QAM
- Colloquium.
- Diversity: time, space and frequency diversity.
- Error control codes: principles, block codes, convolutional codes.
- Speech coding.
- Multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA,CDMA,OFDMA.
- GSM, WCDMA.
- LTE.
- Mobile services market, development trends, equipment manufacturers, devices.
- Colloquium.
Practical instruction (Problem solving sessions/Lab work/Practical training):
- Antenna characteristics and design.
- Telecommunications channel models.
- Modulation and demodulation.
- Channel impact on BER.
- Diversity.
- Channel coding.
- Spread spectrum systems.
- GSM.
Textbooks and References
- Miroslav L. Dukić, Principi telekomunikacija, Akademska misao, Beograd 2008.
- Šunjevarić Milan, Osnovi radio komunikacija sa radio tehnikom, Studio Line, Beograd, 2004.
- N. Gospić, I. Tomić, D. Popović, D. Bogojević, Razavoj mobilnih komunikacija: od GSM do LTE, Saobraćajni fakultet, 2010.
- Theodore S. Rappaport,Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice(2nd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002
Number of active classes (weekly)
Lectures:
3
Practical classes:
2
Other types of classes:
0
Grading (maximum number of points: 100)
Pre-exam obligations
Points
activities during lectures
10
activities on practial excersises
10
seminary work
0
colloquium
50
Final exam
Points
Written exam
30
Oral exam
0