Wireless Communications (EIM)

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Wireless Communications (EIM)

Subject-specific Competencies

Students

  • have acquired a fundamental knowledge about key aspects of the physical layer of contemporary wireless communication systems.
  • design and analyse the signal processing applied in modern digital radio communication systems under different constraints

Methodological Compentencies

Students

  • will be able to understand the meaning or relevant features and aspects of mobile and wireless communication standards and make informed judgments about their suitability for different communication tasks.
  • will be able to evaluate overall system performance of communication systems.

Interdisciplinary Competencies

Students

  • can evaluate solutions in highly complex environments
  • are able to acquire detailed knowledge for solving specific problems on their own
  • learn to discuss and derive solutions within a team

Course Content

  • Introduction: History of wireless communications. From classical radio to modern cellular communication systems
  • Propagation, Antennas & Wireless Channels: From single antenna channels to multipath multi-antenna channel models, propagation models, path loss, multipath effects
  • Digital Modulation in the Baseband: Introduction of basic concepts. N-QAM and N-PSK modulation. Metrics and Limits of Modulation schemes
  • Multi-antenna Techniques (MIMO): Receive and transmit diversity. Beamforming, Detection
  • Multi-user Systems: OFDMA, CDMA, TDMA, SDMA
  • Cellular Systems: 5G and beyond, 5G key technologies
  • Current research topics: Terahertz signal transmission, AI core networking and network management

More information as well as lecture noted are available in the moodle course.

Lecture

#NameSummary
1Fading ChannelsSingle-antenna systems, path loss, shadowing
2Multipath Channel ModelsDoppler Shift, Rayleigh and Rician fading, Jakes model, WINNER Multipath channel models
3ModulationCommon modulation formats e.g. ASK, PSK, QAM, average error probability, coherent and differential detection
4DiversityMulti-antenna setups, Diversity Combining, V-BLAST
5Multicarrier ModulationOFDM basics, OFDM transmitter and receiver, adaptive rate and power allocation
6Channel CodingBlock Codes, convolutional codes
7MIMO Systems and DetectionMaximum Likelihood detection, Linear Receivers, ZF and MMSE
9MIMO BeamformingAnalog and digital beamforming, max-SNR MMSE beamforming
10Multiuser SystemsIntroduction of various multiplexing schemes such as CMDA, TDMA, SDMA, OFDMA
11Cellular SystemsIntroduction to cellular systems
125G and Beyond5G key technologies, Massive MIMO, AI for Wireless Communications

Lab Work

For the majority of lab session, we will use Matlab and corresponding Matlab toolboxes.

#Name             Summary
1Channel ModelsImpact of time-dispersive frequency-selective channels
2Modulation and BERMonte-Carlo simulation with higher-order modulation
3Diversity and OFDMMIMO-OFDM transmitter and receiver
4Coded MIMO-OFDMConvolutional channel code in combination with MIMO-OFDM
Christopher Knievel
Christopher Knievel
Professor for Autonomous Systems

My research interests include situation assessment, maneuver planning, and machine learning applied for (mobile) autonomous systems.