Mobile and Personal Networking
Duration
- 1 Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 48 Hours
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit of study will be able to:
1. Use common wireless communications terminology and IEEE standards relating to wireless and cellular networks2. Assess the performance of wireless links under varying conditions by selecting and applying suitable channel models.
3. Assess the performance of wireless networks under different traffic loads and the presence of noise.
4. Appreciate the advantages, disadvantages, and behaviour of different mobile communications systems.
5. Design cellular mobile telecommunication systems to specified parameters.
6. Appraise the performance of wireless communications systems and sub-systems
7. Predict the performance of wireless modulation and multiple-access techniques.
8. Assess the behaviour of protocols and architectures as used in current wireless networks.
9. Simulate and analyse the performance of wireless communications systems and sub-systems, interpret results, and formulate conclusions.
3. Assess the performance of wireless networks under different traffic loads and the presence of noise.
4. Appreciate the advantages, disadvantages, and behaviour of different mobile communications systems.
5. Design cellular mobile telecommunication systems to specified parameters.
6. Appraise the performance of wireless communications systems and sub-systems
7. Predict the performance of wireless modulation and multiple-access techniques.
8. Assess the behaviour of protocols and architectures as used in current wireless networks.
9. Simulate and analyse the performance of wireless communications systems and sub-systems, interpret results, and formulate conclusions.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Lectures (24 hrs), Tutorial (12 hrs), Practical Classes (12 hrs)
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Examination | Individual / Group | 50-60% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 |
| Test | Individual / Group | 10-15% | 1,2,3, 5,6,7,8 |
| Laboratory Reports | Individual / Group | 25-30% | 2,9 |
| Assignment | Individual / Group | 10-15% | 4,6 |
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.
Study resources
- Reading materials.
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.
Holma, H & Toskala, A, (eds), WCDMA for UMTS: Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications, John Wiley, 2000.