35114 - Communications Systems (2nd Cycle)

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Marco Chiani
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Marco Chiani (Modulo 1) Alessandro Vanelli Coralli (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for Sustainable Development (cod. 8199)

Learning outcomes

Design methods for digital communication systems, both narrowband and wideband, for wired and wireless channels.

Course contents

Introduction to wireless systems.
Elements of detection, estimation and digital transmission theory.
The wireless channel.  Performance evaluation in the presence of co-channel interference and fading.
Multiple antenna systems: diversity, interference mitigation, spatial multiplexing MIMO systems.
Multiple access techniques.
Cellular communications: frequency reuse.
Spread spectrum techniques, OFDM.
Third generation cellular systems (UMTS).
Seminars on GSM, UMTS and DVB-T standards.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes

Teaching methods

Lectures and laboratories experiments

Assessment methods

Written and oral

Teaching tools

Personal computer

Office hours

See the website of Marco Chiani

See the website of Alessandro Vanelli Coralli