Maurizio LONGO | Telecommunication Systems
Maurizio LONGO Telecommunication Systems
cod. 0612700021
TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
| 0612700021 | |
| DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA DELL'INFORMAZIONE ED ELETTRICA E MATEMATICA APPLICATA | |
| EQF6 | |
| COMPUTER ENGINEERING | |
| 2022/2023 |
| YEAR OF COURSE 3 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017 | |
| AUTUMN SEMESTER |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SISTEMI DI TELECOMUNICAZIONE - MOD.1 | |||||
| ING-INF/03 | 4 | 32 | LESSONS | ||
| ING-INF/03 | 2 | 16 | EXERCISES | ||
| SISTEMI DI TELECOMUNICAZIONE - MOD.2 | |||||
| SECS-S/02 | 2 | 16 | LESSONS | ||
| SECS-S/02 | 1 | 8 | EXERCISES | ||
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| THE COURSE FOCUSES ON ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES RELATIVE TO MODERN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, PROVIDING THE ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR THEIR DESIGN. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING - BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT ARCHITECTURES AND TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES OVER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS: SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS, CELLULAR NETWORKS, OPTICAL FIBERS, WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES. - NEW GENERATION NETWORKS. - MIMO SYSTEMS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING - DESIGNING AND SIMULATING NEW-GENERATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURES. - SELECTING THE ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES MORE SUITED TO A SPECIFIC SETTING, OPTIMIZING THE NETWORK CONFIGURATION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN VIEW OF BANDWIDTH, POWER, AND LATENCY REQUIREMENTS. |
| Prerequisites | |
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| FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY, SIGNAL ANALYSIS AND TRANSMISSION TECHNIQUES. PREPARATORY COURSES: FONDAMENTI DI ANALISI DEI SEGNALI E TRASMISSIONE. |
| Contents | |
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| Didactic Unit 1: Physical layer and point-to-point communications. (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 12/2/4) - 1 (2 hours lecture): Basic architectures of telecommunication systems and networks. - 2 (2 hours lecture): Point-to-point communication model. Physical layer. - 3 (2 hours lecture): TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES. OPTICAL FIBERS. SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS. WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. CELLULAR NETWORKS. - 4 (2 hours lecture): Standard modulations: PSK and QAM. Geometric representation and performance evaluation. Bandwidth and power requirements. - 5 (2 hours lecture): Orthogonal modulations. Geometric representation and performance evaluation. Bandwidth and power requirements. - 6 (2 hours lecture): Designing a point-to-point system in view of bandwidth and power requirements. - 7 (2 hours practice): Digital modulations (exercises). - 8 (2 hours laboratory): Digital modulations (computer-aided simulation). - 9 (2 hours laboratory): Digital modulations (computer-aided simulation). KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS about the physical layer and about digital modulations in point-to-point communications. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING Designing and simulating a simple digital transmission system IN VIEW OF BANDWIDTH AND POWER REQUIREMENTS. Didactic Unit 2: Wireless communications and link budget (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 12/6/2) - 10 (2 hours lecture): Multipath effect over wireless channels. - 11 (2 hours lecture): Doppler effect over wireless channels. - 12 (2 hours lecture): Fading in mobile communications. Rayleigh model. - 13 (2 hours lecture): Evaluation of performance degradation due to fading in digital systems. Countermeasures: Diversity techniques. - 14 (2 hours lecture): Analog repeaters. - 15 (2 hours lecture): Digital repeaters. The link budget problem. - 16 (2 hours practice): Link budget planning with analog repeaters (exercises). - 17 (2 hours practice): Link budget planning with digital repeaters (exercises). - 18 (2 hours practice): Link budget on sequences of homogeneous and heterogeneous paths, e.g., wired + wireless, with different transmission technologies (exercises). - 19 (2 hours laboratory): Digital systems affected by fading, with or without diversity techniques (computer-aided simulation). KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS about wireless communications and link budget. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING Planning a point-to-point system made of multiple paths, by selecting the appropriate transmission technologies, and by conveniently dimensioning the system in terms of link budget and allocation of analog and/or digital repeaters. Didactic unit 3: Cellular networks and multiple access. (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 12/2/2) - 20 (2 hours lecture): THE “CELLULAR” CONCEPT. CELL PARTITIONING. FREQUENCY REUSE. - 21 (2 hours lecture): CELL ALLOCATION PROBLEMS, DIMENSIONING, AND COVERAGE. - 22 (2 hours lecture): NEAR-FAR effect. HANDOVER STRATEGIES. - 23 (2 hours practice): Cell and cluster dimensioning in a cellular network (exercises). - 24 (2 hours lecture): Access strategies. Orthogonal strategies. TDMA. FDMA. - 25 (2 hours lecture): Non-orthogonal access strategies. Spread spectrum strategies. CDMA. - 26 (2 hours lecture): OFDM. - 27 (2 hours laboratory): Multiple access strategies (computer-aided simulation). KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT CELLULAR NETWORKS AND MULTIPLE ACCESS strategies IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING SELECTING APPROPRIATE ACCESS strategies IN VIEW OF SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. DIMENSIONING A SIMPLE CELLULAR SYSTEM IN VIEW OF CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS. Didactic unit 4: Telecommunication networks architectures. (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 12/4/2) - 28 (2 hours lecture): OVERVIEW OF PAST AND PRESENT COMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURES. - 29 (2 hours lecture): LTE networks and advanced LTE (LTE-A). Voice over LTE. - 30 (2 hours lecture): 5G networks. Main concepts about 5G networks and comparison with previous generations. Access network and core network. Radio aspects. - 31 (2 hours lecture): Network softwarization aspects. Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization. Network slicing over 5G networks. - 32 (2 hours lecture): Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. - 33 (2 hours lecture): Massive MIMO in 5G. - 34 (2 hours laboratory): MIMO systems (computer-aided simulation). - 35 (2 hours practice): Selecting the enabling technologies in view of system requirements for basic network architectures. - 36 (2 hours practice): Selecting the enabling technologies in view of system requirements for basic network architectures. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURES. NEW GENERATION NETWORKS. MIMO SYSTEMS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING DESIGNING SIMPLE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURES, BY SELECTING THE APPROPRIATE ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES IN VIEW OF SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (E.G., BANDWIDTH, POWER AND LATENCY). TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 48/14/10 |
| Teaching Methods | |
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| THE COURSE INCLUDES THEORETICAL LECTURES, CLASSROOM EXERCISES, AND COMPUTER LABORATORY EXPERIENCES FOCUSED ON THE SIMULATION OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS. |
| Verification of learning | |
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| SUCCESSFUL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE LEARNING OUTCOMES WILL BE ASSESSED THROUGH: 1) A WRITTEN EXAMINATION CONSISTING OF EXERCISES PERTAINING TO THE TOPICS ILLUSTRATED DURING THE COURSE. 2) THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SIMPLE SIMULATOR TO SOLVE A PROBLEM OF DESIGN AND ALLOCATION IN A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. |
| Texts | |
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| PROAKIS-SALEHI ""FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS"", 2ND EDITION, PEARSON, 2014 SESIA-TOUFIK-BAKER ""LTE, THE UMTS LONG TERM EVOLUTION: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE"", 2ND EDITION, WILEY, 2011. DAHMAN-PARKVALL-SKOLD “5G NR – THE NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS ACCESS TECHNOLOGY”, 2ND EDITION, ACADEMIC PRESS, 2021. SUPPLEMENTARY TEACHING MATERIAL WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE UNIVERSITY E-LEARNING PLATFORM (HTTP://ELEARNING.UNISA.IT) ACCESSIBLE TO STUDENTS USING THEIR OWN UNIVERSITY CREDENTIALS. |
| More Information | |
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| THE COURSE IS HELD IN ITALIAN. |
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