37120 - Trends in Communications M

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Docente: Petar Mihailo Djuric
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: 0
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Telecommunications Engineering (cod. 9205)

Learning outcomes

The course is intended to extend knowledge on application fields and needs of evolving communication scenarios, to practice and develop interaction skills with lecturer and team working, to stimulate active learning.

Course contents

Review of estimation theory

Bayesian estimation, batch and recursive estimation

State-space models and filtering

Optimal filtering

Kalman and extended Kalman filtering

Unscented Kalman filtering, Quadrature Kalman filtering, and Gaussian sum filtering

Monte Carlo-based methods for estimation of probability densities

Particle filtering

Bayesian smoothing

Curse of dimensionality

Applications

Readings/Bibliography

Papers for additional reading will be provided as the course progresses.

Teaching methods

There will be weekly classes, each three hours long. The instructor will present the material using Power point slides. The teaching will have an interactive component. 

Assessment methods

The assessment will be based on projects where students will program Bayesian filtering methods on given applications.

Teaching tools

The instructor will use Matlab to demonstrate the performance of various methods.

Office hours

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