93330 - Trends in Communications M

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • 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

The course is organized as a collection of seminars given by experts in Telecommunications.

This year the seminars will be given by PhD students with the aim to create connections between the Master curriculum and research, with insights on possible opportunities for the preparation of the final project.

The preliminay list of seminars is as follows:

- LoRaWAN networks: introduction, architecture and applications

- Radio sensing, communication, and autonomous navigation of a dynamic network of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

- THz Communications and Their Application to Industrial Cyber-Physical-Systems

- Software-Defined Networking, Service Function Chaining and the Intent-based Approach

- Standards for Network Function Virtualization and Multi-access Edge Computing

- Energy and Delay Efficient Techniques for Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in B5G Scenarios

- Simulation and optimization of 5G transport networks for ultra-reliable scenarios

- Brain-based communications

- IoT Solutions for Independent Elderly: a Microwave System for Tracking People Occupancy at Home

- Eco-compatible Wireless Sensing solutions

- Design and Control of Advanced Antenna Arrays for Energy-aware Wireless Power Transfer

Readings/Bibliography

Papers on the topic of the seminar distributed in advance. Students are required to read the assigned papers before the seminar and prepare questions.

Teaching methods

Students will be involved in peer interaction with the teachers through questions and discussions in groups.

Team working will take place at the end of the seminar.

Attendance to the seminars is compulsory (see assessment methods for details).

Assessment methods

Evaluation of student's partecipation and ability to interact with experts will take place during the course. Reporting from team working will be also evaluated. Attendance to the seminars is compulsory (at least 6 seminars out of 8).

Teaching tools

Scientific papers; iol.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Carla Raffaelli

SDGs

Quality education Industry, innovation and infrastructure

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.