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This course covers the basic concepts, technologies and principles of modern mobile communication systems, including mobile radio propagation channels, digital modulation, channel impairment mitigation techniques, multiple access technologies of modern mobile communication systems and networking, cell and frequency reuse, the involution of modern cellular communication systems,i.e., from 2nd generation to 5th generation radio access networks.

Course will be delivered continuously in the traditional manner at UESTC.

Mandatory Entry Requirements

None

Recommended Entry Requirements

None

None

None

Assessment

Total ＝ Coursework (5%) +Course design and project (20%) + Final exam (75%)

Details are as follows：

Coursework：including homework.

Course design and project: including the experimental classes, the assignment and the project, the presentation of the assignment and the project

Final exam: close-book exam

Reassessment

In accordance with the University's Code of Assessment reassessments are normally set for all courses which do not contribute to the honours classifications. For non-honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students, and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions are listed below in this box.

Due to the nature of the coursework and sequencing of courses, it is not possible to reassess the coursework laboratory and/or projects.

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

Due to the nature of the coursework and sequencing of courses, it is not possible to reassess the coursework laboratory and/or project.

The initial grade on coursework laboratories will be used when calculating the resit grade.

Reassessment is offered only to meet the special requirement that all courses must be passed for graduation in this programme.

This course aims to strengthen students' basic knowledge, professional competence, comprehensive quality and innovative ability; from the perspective of mobile communication system, to enhance students' professionalism and understanding of the basic knowledge and application. Through programming/simulation and project design, students can master a solid theoretical knowledge of mobile communication and improve expertise and engineering literacy in the field of mobile communication.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Illustrate the concepts of mobile communication, the concept of duplex mode, the feature of 1G to 5G mobile communications systems

■ Demonstrate the concept of fading channel, including the large-scale fading, the propagation loss, the small-scale fading, the multi-path fading, the frequency selective fading, the Doppler shift, the time selective fading, the coherent time, the coherent bandwidth, the reflection, the diffraction, the scattering, the statistical distribution of fading channel

■ Consider the phase shift keying (PSK), including BPSK, DQPSK; the constant envelope modulation, including MSK, GMSK; the Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)

■ outline the concept of channel coding, diversity and combining, multiple input and multiple output technique, equalization, and the spread spectrum as well as the rake receiver.

■ Demonstrate the concept of cellular system, the impact of cell and frequency reuse to the performance of the network, the co-channel interference, the system capacity; Demonstrate the multiple-access technologies, including FDMA, TDMA, CDMA and SDMA, and compare the capacity of the cellular system; Understand Consider the involution and key techniques of the radio access networks from 1st generation to the 5th generation of modern cellular communication systems.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment. In addition students must submit work for assessment for the course laboratory or a grade of credit withheld will be given.

Students must attend the timetabled laboratory classes.

Note that these are minimum requirements: good students will achieve far higher participation/submission rates. Any student who misses an assessment or a significant number of classes because of illness or other good cause should report this by completing a MyCampus absence report.