Physical Layer in Wireless Communications R1a

Overview

Credits points: 12

Workload:
120 hours course attendance; 240 hours self-study

Semester: see course description

Language: English

Module type: elective

Module usability: M.Sc. Electrical Communication Engineering, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik

Module duration: two semesters

Required qualifications:
Knowledge of fundamentals in digital communications

Competences to be acquired

Research and development in the area of digital transmission systems, Signal processing (e.g. transceivers, image processing), Statistical inference (e.g. quality management) and simulation of communication systems (e.g. telecommunications)

Consulting in the area of information technology

Operation and maintenance of devices in production processes

Courses

Content

  • Carrier and timing recovery
  • Signalling in band-limited channels
  • Transmission over linear band-limited channels
  • Intersymbol interference
  • Adaptive equalization
  • Multicarrier transmission

Learning outcomes

  • Detailed understanding of schemes and receiver algorithms in the physical layer of real-world communication systems including aspects in the receiver design which characterize the trade-off between implementation effort and achievable performance

Details

  • Lecturer: Dirk Dahlhaus and team
  • Teaching method: lecture and exercises
  • SWS: 3
  • Credit points: 5
  • Offered in: summer
  • Examination: oral exam (30 minutes)
  • Course identifier: FB16-4929; FB16-4936

Content

  • Carrier and timing recovery
  • Signalling in band-limited channels
  • Transmission over linear band-limited channels
  • Intersymbol interference
  • Adaptive equalization
  • Multicarrier transmission

Learning outcomes

  • Detailed understanding of schemes and receiver algorithms in the physical layer of real-world communication systems including aspects in the receiver design which characterize the trade-off between implementation effort and achievable performance

Details

  • Lecturer: Dirk Dahlhaus and team
  • Teaching method: lab training
  • SWS: 1
  • Credit points: 1
  • Offered in: summer
  • Examination: lab attendance and oral exam (30 min)
  • Course identifier: FB16-5114

Content

  • Multichannel and multicarrier transmission
  • Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Spread spectrum (direct sequence, frequency hopping)
  • PN sequences
  • Transmission over fading multipath channels
  • Channel coding for multipath channels
  • Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and massive MIMO transmissions
  • Multiuser detection
  • Random access
  • Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and free-cell communications

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding the channel characterization, interference phenomena and signal processing in advanced wireless and mobile radio systems

Details

  • Lecturer: Dirk Dahlhaus and team
  • Teaching method: lecture and exercises
  • SWS: 3
  • Credit points: 5
  • Offered in: winter
  • Examination: oral exam (30 minutes)
  • Course identifier: FB16-5156

Content

  • Multichannel and multicarrier transmission
  • Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Spread spectrum (direct sequence, frequency hopping)
  • PN sequences
  • Transmission over fading multipath channels

    Content

  • Multichannel and multicarrier transmission
  • Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Spread spectrum (direct sequence, frequency hopping)
  • PN sequences
  • Transmission over fading multipath channels
  • Channel coding for multipath channels
  • Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and massive MIMO transmissions
  • Multiuser detection
  • Random access
  • Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and free-cell communications

  • Learning outcomes

  • Understanding the channel characterization, interference phenomena and signal processing in advanced wireless and mobile radio systems

  • Details

  • Lecturer: Dirk Dahlhaus and team
  • Teaching method: lab training
  • SWS: 1
  • Credit points: 1
  • Offered in: winter
  • Examination: lab attendance and oral exam (30 min)
  • Course identifier: FB16-5116