TIES422 Wireless systems 3 op, 2 ov

Lectures: 24 hours. Lectured in finnish.

Latest information:

• Example exam.

Registration for the course and the exam(s):Korppi -system

Contents: Present and future mobile communication systems, specially GSM-system. Structure of GSM-network. Signaling in GSM-network. Propagation path loss prediction models for cellular networks. Design of cellular networks. WLAN. Bluetooth.

Objective of the course: After the course the student has a good basic knowledge of GSM technology and of the systems evolving from it. Also, the student will get a basic knowledge of the design of cellular networks and understand the special requirements, which result from the mobile radio environment, affecting the specification of the GSM system.

Prerequisities: Some knowledge about data networks and telecommunication networks.

Completion mode: Exam and exercises. The Exam has 4 problems and all exams have english (and finnish) questions.

Evaluation of the course: Exam (max 24 points) + Exercises (max 6 points), as shown in the table below.

Evaluation of exercises:

Exercises:

• Return your solutions to by email before time on tuesdays.
• Tuesday 16.9. Exercise 1 - Solutions
• Tuesday 23.9. Exercise 2 - Solutions
• Tuesday 30.9. Exercise 3 - Solutions
• Tuesday 7.10. Exercise 4 - Solutions
• Tuesday 14.10. Exercise 5 - Solutions
• Tuesday 21.10. Exercise 6 - Solutions

Lecture materials:

• Lecture notes provide structure of lectures. From the links you find material for learning the topics and that learning will be tested in the Exam.
• Final version of the Lecture notes will be published near the first Exam.
• Lecture slides.
  • Review of Decibel Scale
  • About propagation models [Smi97], Chapter 3.1
  • GSM [Col01], Luku 3.4
  • GPRS Understanding General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), [Hak03]
  • EDGE/EGPRS EDGE Introduction of high-speed data in GSM/GPRS networks
  • The Cellular Concept - System Design Fundamentals
  • UMTS/WCDMA Tutorial 3G, UMTS and WCDMA Technology page from UMTS World
  • UMTS/WCDMA Tutorial (another one) UMTS / WCDMA tutorial
• WLAN material
• Bluetooth material

Literature:

• [Ban04] Bannister Jeffrey, Convergence Technologies for 3G Networks : IP, UMTS, EGPRS and ATM . John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
• [Col01] Collins Daniel, 3G Wireless Networks.
• [Hak03] Markus Hakaste, Eero Nikula and Shkumbin Hamiti, GSM/EDGE Standards Evolution (up to Rel’4) from GSM, GPRS and EDGE Performance 2nd Ed. Edited by T. Halonen, J. Romero and J. Melero. 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd ISBN: 0-470-86694-2
• [Hol05] Holma Harri, WCDMA for UMTS : Radio Access for Third Generation Mobile Communications (3rd Edition). John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• [Mcg05] McGuiggan Peter, GPRS in Practice : A Companion to the Specifications . John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
• [Mis04] Mishra Ajay R., Fundamentals of Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation : 2G/2.5G/3G- Evolution To 4G . John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
• [Pen01] Penttinen Jyrki, GSM-tekniikka: järjestelmän toiminta ja kehitys kohti UMTS aikakautta, WSOY 2001.
• [Pra05] Prasad Neeli, 802.11 WLANs and IP Networking : Security, QoS, and Mobility. Artech House, 2005.
• [Rap02] Rappaport Theodore, Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Chapter 3: The Cellular Concept - System Design Fundamentals, Pearson Education 2002.
• [Seu03] Seurre Emmanuel, EDGE for Mobile Internet. Artech House, 2003.
• [Smi97] Smith Clint, Collins Daniel, Practical Cellular & PCS Design . Blacklick, OH, USA: McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group, 1997.

Other literature:

• About propagation models:
  • Review of Decibel Scale
  • Tutorial on propagation theory.
  • Tutorial on empirical propagation models.
  • Maxwell's equations.
• A brief overview of the GSM radio interface. HTML version from Turletti's homepage. For pdf see CiteSeer.
• GMSK in a nutshell pdf from CiteSeer.
• A link to radio propagation models for extra information.
• All the specifications can be found from the ETSI publications download area.
• You can access the IEEE publications database from the computers in the University's network.
• EDGE white papers.
• GPRS white papers.
• UMTS white papers..

• Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA)
• Some abbreviations used in GSM and GPRS explained
• Some (english-finnish) translations of the "GSM-terminology"
• A Brief Overview of GSM
• An overview of the GSM system
• Tutorial: Multipath
• Telecommunication terms explained