Postgraduate Course: Advanced Wireless Communications (MSc) (PGEE11120)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Engineering) |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will cover the current topics of interest in Advanced Wireless Communications. Syllabus:
1. The wireless channel
2. Point-to-point communication: detection, diversity and channel uncertainty
3. Cellular systems: multiple access and interference management
4. Capacity of wireless channels
5. Multiuser capacity and opportunistic communication
6. MIMO I: spatial multiplexing and channel modelling
7. MIMO II: capacity and multiplexing architectures
8. MIMO III: diversity-multiplexing trade-off and universal space-time codes
Practical examples of the above concepts are presented throughout the course. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 33,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
65 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| The students will understand fundamentals as well as advanced concepts in wireless communications. They will be able to understand the wireless channel characteristics and modelling; wireless communication concepts and techniques; and application of these concepts in a cellular system context. They will be able to learn the recent developments such as opportunistic and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication techniques. These techniques have brought completely new perspectives on how to communicate over wireless channels. They will be able to quantify the wireless channel capacities and degrees of freedom regions for different channel models, such as point-to-point channels, multiple access channels, broadcast channels, interference channels, etc. Finally, they will be able to design and analysis the cellular systems, for example interim of spectral and energy efficiencies, coverage, etc. |
Assessment Information
| 100% Examination |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
D. Tse and P. Viswanath, ¿Fundamentals of Wireless Communication,¿ Cambridge University Press, July 2005.
A. Goldsmith, ¿Wireless Communications,¿ Cambridge University Press, August 2005. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tharmalingam Ratnarajah
Tel: (0131 6)50 5578
Email: T.Ratnarajah@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk |
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