85731 - Vehicular Communications M

Learning outcomes

The course will provide fundamentals of intra-vehicle wireless and wired communication systems, and of wireless transmission and network/protocol architectures for the connectivity between the vehicle and the cloud. Understanding of the architecture of satellite positioning systems and the main design principles and performance trade-off.

Course contents

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: THEORY AND MEASUREMENT M + VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS: THEORY AND MEASUREMENT M - Prof. Oreste Andrisano

I part: O. Andrisano
Fundamentals of communication engineering.

Wireless communication fundamentals. Telecommunication scenario. Intra and intervehicle communication systems. Digital cellular radio, spectrum usage, link budget in a realistic scenario, with noise, fading and interference. Propagation effects. Digital modulation fundamentals, design examples. Lab. Activity.

II part: O.Andrisano

Baseband and Passband System analysis

Transmitter and Receiver structures, Analog and Digital Modulations. Filter design in analog and digital communication systems. Transmission over band-limited channels, intersymbol Interference. Noise and interference characterization. Quality evaluation for different mo-demodulation formats. Lab Activity

III part: O.Andrisano

Design criteria and Application examples

Comparison of different Mo-Demodulations methods. Tradeoff between spectrum efficiency and power efficiency. Fading models: flat and selective effects. Non linear effects. Applications examples for terrestrial, satellite and mobile radio systems. Lab. Activity

VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS - Titolare del corso Prof. Oreste Andrisano

I modulo O. Andrisano

Wireless communication fundamentals. Telecommunication scenario. Intra and intervehicle communication systems. Digital cellular radio, spectrum usage, link budget in a realistic scenario, with noise, fading and interference. Propagation effects. Digital modulation fundamentals, design examples. Lab. Activity.

II Modulo R.Verdone

Countermeasures to Fading in Noise Limited Channels

Fundamentals of Assignment of Radio Resources

Network Theory. Medium Access Control

Radio Resource Management, Radio Network Architectures

Internet of Things

III Modulo A. Vanelli Coralli
- Principles of positioning and navigation systems

- Communications standards and regulatory systems

Readings/Bibliography

1. Quaderni di telecomunicazioni: appunti tratte dalle lezioni del Prof.O.Andrisano - Esculapio, Bologna

2. Taub Schilling - Principles of Communication Systems, Second Edition - Mc Graw-Hill

3. M.Schwartz - Information, Transmission, Modulation and Noise - McGraw-Hill

4. Bruce Carlson - Communication Systems, Third Edition -McGraw-Hill

5. B. Sklar - Digital Communications, Fundamental and Applications - Prentice Hall

Teaching methods

- Lectures

- Laboratory activities are organized and measurements are done on workbench about topics including noise figure, RC filter, Supereterodine receiver, band-image problem, low-pass analog filters, amplitude modulation, frequency modulation.

- Experimental or theoretical work is proposed for degree thesis, to be developed in the WiLab (Wireless Communication Laboratory www.wilab.org or in the Italian or European industries.

Assessment methods

Written and oral exam

Teaching tools

News & Information: http://www.wilab.org/content/teaching-news-information

Office hours

See the website of Oreste Andrisano

See the website of Roberto Verdone

See the website of Alessandro Vanelli Coralli