This course provides a comprehensive overview and advanced knowledge of modern mobile and wireless communication systems. Building on the prior knowledge on digital communications, students develop further understanding on the challenges and opportunities brought by the wireless medium in designing current and future wireless communication systems and networks.
Topics include:
* Overview of digital wireless communications and cellular concept;
* Interference and traffic analysis for cellular networks;
* Wireless fading channel modelling and characterisation;
* Modulation and detection performance over fading channels;
* Equalisation techniques;
* Multi-carrier systems;
* Spread spectrum techniques;
* Receiver and transmitter diversity techniques;
* Information theory of wireless channels;
* Multiple antenna systems and space-time communications;
* Cooperative communications;
* Standards of wireless cellular networks (e.g. 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G and beyond).
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Apply cellular concepts to evaluate the signal reception performance in a cellular network and traffic analysis to design cellular network with given quality of service constraints.
- Determine the type and appropriate model of wireless fading channel based on the system parameters and the property of the wireless medium.
- Analyse and design receiver and transmitter diversity techniques.
- Determine the appropriate transceiver design of multi-antenna systems and evaluate the data rate performance.
- Design wireless communication systems with key 3G (e.g., CDMA) and 4G (OFDM) technologies.
- Describe and differentiate four generations of wireless standard for cellular networks.
Indicative Assessment
- Assignments (12) [LO 1,2,3,4]
- Hardware Labs (3) [LO 5]
- Simulink Project (20) [LO 2,3,5]
- Mid-semester exam (20) [LO 1,2,3,5]
- Final Exam (45) [LO 1,2,3,4,5,6]
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Workload
10 hours/week including the following formal contact hours for the whole semester: 24 x 2-hour lectures, 6 x 1-hour tutorials, 1 x 3-hour hardware laboratory. Apart from these, approximately 5 hours per week is required for independent study.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
- Main: A.J. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2005.
- Suggested: T.S. Rappaport, Wireless Communications: Theory and Practice, Prentice Hall, Second Edition, 2002
Majors
Minors
Fees
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 2
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2020 | $4320 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2020 | $5760 |
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Second Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7509 | 27 Jul 2020 | 03 Aug 2020 | 31 Aug 2020 | 30 Oct 2020 | In Person | N/A |