Vincenzo MATTA | 5G NETWORKS
Vincenzo MATTA 5G NETWORKS
cod. 0612700125
5G NETWORKS
| 0612700125 | |
| DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS | |
| EQF6 | |
| COMPUTER ENGINEERING | |
| 2023/2024 |
| OBBLIGATORIO | |
| YEAR OF COURSE 3 | |
| YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2017 | |
| AUTUMN SEMESTER |
| SSD | CFU | HOURS | ACTIVITY | ||
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| 5G NETWORKS | |||||
| ING-INF/03 | 6 | 48 | LESSONS | ||
| PROGETTO DI 5G NETWORKS | |||||
| ING-INF/03 | 3 | 24 | EXERCISES | ||
| Objectives | |
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| THE COURSE FOCUSES ON ARCHITECTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES RELATIVE TO MODERN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WITH EMPHASIS ON 5G NETWORKS, 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. MAIN ATTRIBUTES OF 5G 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 8/2/2) - 1 (2 HOUR LECTURE): BASIC ARCHITECTURE OF SYSTEMS AND TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS. POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATION MODEL. PHYSICAL LAYER. - 2 (2 HOUR LECTURE): TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES. OPTICAL FIBERS. SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS. WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. CELLULAR NETWORKS. - 3 (2 HOUR LECTURE): STANDARD MODULATIONS: PSK AND QAM. GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. BANDWIDTH AND POWER REQUIREMENTS. - 4 (2 HOUR LECTURE): ORTHOGONAL MODULATIONS. GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION. BANDWIDTH AND POWER REQUIREMENTS. - 5 (2 HOUR PRACTICE): EXERCISES ON DIGITAL MODULATIONS. - 6 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): COMPUTER-AIDED SIMULATIONS ON DIGITAL MODULATIONS. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT THE PHYSICAL LAYER AND DIGITAL MODULATIONS INVOLVED IN POINT-TO-POINT COMMUNICATIONS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING PLANNING AND SIMULATING A SIMPLE DIGITAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM IN VIEW OF BANDWIDTH AND POWER REQUIREMENTS. DIDACTIC UNIT 2: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 6/4/2) - 7 (2 HOUR LECTURE): MULTIPATH AND DOPPLER EFFECTS IN WIRELESS CHANNELS. FADING IN MOBILE RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS. RAYLEIGH MODEL. - 8 (2 HOUR LECTURE): EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION IN DIGITAL SYSTEMS CAUSED BY FADING. COUNTERMEASURES: DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES. - 9 (2 HOUR LECTURE): ANALOG AND DIGITAL REPEATERS. THE LINK BUDGET PROBLEM. - 10 (2 HOUR PRACTICE): EXERCISES ON FADING. - 11 (2 HOUR PRACTICE): EXERCISES ON LINK BUDGET PLANNING WITH ANALOG REPEATERS. - 12 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): COMPUTER-AIDED SIMULATIONS ON DIGITAL SYSTEMS AFFECTED BY FADING, WITH OR WITHOUT DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND ABOUT 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 8/2/2) - 13 (2 HOUR LECTURE): THE “CELLULAR” CONCEPT. CELL PARTITIONING. FREQUENCY REUSE. - 14 (2 HOUR LECTURE): CELL ALLOCATION PROBLEMS, DIMENSIONING, AND COVERAGE. NEAR-FAR EFFECT. HANDOVER STRATEGIES. - 15 (2 HOUR LECTURE): ACCESS TECHNIQUES. ORTHOGONAL TECHNIQUES. TDMA. FDMA. NON-ORTHOGONAL ACCESS TECHNIQUES. - 16 (2 HOUR LECTURE): SPREAD-SPECTRUM TECHNIQUES. CDMA. OFDM. - 17 (2 HOUR PRACTICE): DIMENSIONING OF A CELLULAR SYSTEM. - 18 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): COMPUTER-AIDED SIMULATIONS ON MULTIPLE ACCESS TECHNIQUES. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT CELLULAR NETWORKS AND ABOUT MULTIPLE ACCESS TECHNIQUES IN TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING DIMENSIONING A SIMPLE CELLULAR SYSTEM IN VIEW OF CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS. SELECTING APPROPRIATE ACCESS TECHNIQUES IN VIEW OF SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS. DIDACTIC UNIT 4: ARCHITECTURE OF 5G NETWORKS AND RADIO ASPECTS. (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 14/0/2) - 19 (2 HOUR LECTURE): OVERVIEW ON DIFFERENT GENERATION NETWORKS. - 20 (2 HOUR LECTURE): LTE NETWORKS AND ADVANCED LTE (LTE-A). VOICE OVER LTE. - 21 (2 HOUR LECTURE): 5G NETWORKS. CRITICAL ASPECTS OF 5G NETWORKS AND COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS GENERATIONS. - 22 (2 HOUR LECTURE): ACCESS NETWORK. RADIO ASPECTS. SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO. - 23 (2 HOUR LECTURE): BEAMFORMING. - 24 (2 HOUR LECTURE): MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS. - 25 (2 HOUR LECTURE): MASSIVE MIMO IN 5G. - 26 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): COMPUTER-AIDED SIMULATIONS OF A SIMPLE MIMO SYSTEM KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING BASIC NOTIONS ABOUT TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURES. NEW-GENERATION NETWORKS. MIMO SYSTEMS APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING PLANNING SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR ACCESS NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN 5G NETWORKS. DIDACTIC UNIT 5: CORE NETWORK (TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 12/0/8) - 27 (2 HOUR LECTURE): 5G CORE NETWORK. - 28 (2 HOUR LECTURE): NETWORK SOFTWARIZATION. SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS, NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION. NETWORK SLICING IN 5G. - 29 (2 HOUR LECTURE): THE EDGE CONCEPT. WIRELESS EDGE. EDGE COMPUTING AND ADVANTAGES IN TERMS OF RESOURCES, LATENCY, QOS. - 30 (2 HOUR LECTURE): SECURITY ISSUES IN 5G. - 31 (2 HOUR LECTURE): DELAY PROBLEMS. LATENCY REQUIREMENTS. LOW-LATENCY IN 5G. - 32 (2 HOUR LECTURE): DELAY MODELS - 33 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): PLANNING AND SIMULATING AN APPLICATION COVERING ASPECTS PERTAINING TO ACCESS AND/OR CORE AND/OR EDGE NETWORK, PART 1. - 34 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): PLANNING AND SIMULATING AN APPLICATION COVERING ASPECTS PERTAINING TO ACCESS AND/OR CORE AND/OR EDGE NETWORK, PART 2. - 35 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): PLANNING AND SIMULATING AN APPLICATION COVERING ASPECTS PERTAINING TO ACCESS AND/OR CORE AND/OR EDGE NETWORK, PART 3. - 36 (2 HOUR LABORATORY): PLANNING AND SIMULATING AN APPLICATION COVERING ASPECTS PERTAINING TO ACCESS AND/OR CORE AND/OR EDGE NETWORK, PART 4. KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING PLANNING SIMPLE SOLUTIONS FOR CORE NETWORK MANAGEMENT IN 5G NETWORKS. APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING PLANNING SIMPLE NEW-GENERATION TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK ARCHITECTURES BY SELECTING APPROPRIATE ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES IN VIEW OF THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (I.E., BANDWIDTH, POWER, AND LATENCY). TOTAL LECTURE/PRACTICE/LABORATORY HOURS 48/8/16 |
| 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. |
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| THE COURSE IS HELD IN ITALIAN. |
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