Undergraduate Course: Advanced Wireless Communications (ELEE11093)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will cover the current topics of interest in Advanced Wireless Communications.
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: capacity, multiplexing architectures and space-time codes
Practical examples of the above concepts are presented throughout the course.
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| Course description |
Not entered
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 33,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
62 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written Exam 100% |
| Feedback |
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Advanced Wireless Communications 5 | 120 | |
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.
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Reading List
| D. Tse and P. Viswanath, Fundamentals of Wireless Communication, Cambridge University Press, July 2005 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The following Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP4) learning outcomes are assessed as follows:
Written Exam: M1 Science, mathematics and engineering principles; M2 Problem analysis; M3 Analytical tools and techniques; M6 Integrated/systems approach
The following Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes (AHEP4) learning outcomes covered, but not assessed: M4 Technical literature; M5 Design
The following Skills for Success areas are covered: Critical thinking; Problem solving; Curiosity; Data and Digital Literacy |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Majid Safari
Tel: (0131 6)51 3569
Email: Majid.Safari@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Ilaria Monfroni
Tel:
Email: imonfron@ed.ac.uk |
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