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Learning target / Competences
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The students:
- understand general communication concepts and their practical application
- understand the general architecture and basic mechanisms of modern Telecommunication Networks
- understand role and implications of a layered communication architecture
- obtain the capability to analyze, organize and maintain IP networks
- understand performance issues in network environments and how to avoid performance bottlenecks
- learn the terminology and methodology to be able to analyze and tune communication systems
- identify typical requirements and problems in network environments and devise adequate solutions (e.g. addressing, error recovery, flow control, routing)
- have the capability to select and adequately use standard network equipment (repeater, hubs, switches, routers,..) for given tasks
- are capable to interpret data traffic visualized over a network sniffing tool and understand the rationale of the exchanged messages
- understand advanced modulation and coding schemes being used in modern Telecommunication and Computer Networks
- achieve the competence to understand, design, implement and analyze medium access control (MAC) mechanisms being used in modern Telecommunication and Computer Networks
- achieve the competence to understand the basics of traffic engineering for the use in modern Telecommunication and Computer Networks
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Lectures
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Telecommunication Networks
| Type |
Lecture |
| Nr. |
EMI408 |
| Hours per week |
2.0 |
| Content |
Introduction to Cellular Networks
- Historical overview from 1G to 4G
- The cellular concept: frequency reuse, sectoring
- The mobile channel: link budget, path loss models, fading
- Capacity of fading channels
Transmission Technologies: Link
- Modulation and Coding
- Rate Adaptation
- Multi-carrier modulation: OFDM
Multiple-Access Technologies
- Scheduled multiple access: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, SDMA
- Random access: ALOHA and its modern variations
Further Developement: 5G
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| Literature |
- C. Cox, An Introduction to LTE: LTE, LTE-Advanced, SAE, VoLTE and 4G Mobile Communications. Wiley, 2014.
- A. Ghosh, J. Zhang, J. G. Andrews, R. Muhamed, Fundamentals of LTE. Prentice Hall, 2010.
- A. F. Molisch, Wireless Communications. Wiley, 2011.
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Computer Networks
| Type |
Lecture |
| Nr. |
EMI407 |
| Hours per week |
2.0 |
| Content |
• General Communication Concepts
• OSI and TCP/IP Reference Model
• Physical Layer
• Data Link Layer
• Network Layer
• Transport Layer
• Application Layer
• Performance Analysis
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| Literature |
• A.S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010.
• J. F. Kurose, K. W. Ross, Computer Networking (A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet), 6th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2012
• Comer, Droms, Computer Networks and Internets, 6th Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2014
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