Course Description
This course considers the latest technology development in wireless communications, LTE and LTE Advanced, some times referred to as "4G".
These systems are high performing and represent "state-of-the-art" in many aspects, and the performance targets are indeed impressive.
The aim of this course is to give good knowledge concerning principles, concepts, functioning, performance and limitations for such systems for mobile communications.
This course also includes trends for future system solutions.
In this course we will use the book "4G, LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband",written by the authors Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Sköld. Academic Press, 2011.
The list below of the different chapters in this book gives a good indication of the content of this course. Note that we will not study all chapters in detail. Several chapters will be studied partially.
Examples of important topics that is studied in this course are: Fundamental limits for the bit rate - capacity results and interpretations. Spectrum flexibility. OFDM - multi user communications. Systems with multiple antennas. Adaptive mechanisms in connection with variations in channal quality in the downlink and in the uplink. Transmission methods in the downlink and in the uplink. The physical layer. Control signals base station - mobile. Receiver structures. Performance for LTE and LTE Advanced. Trends for future systems.
It is assumed that the students have previous knowledge (Förutsatta förkunskaper) corresponding to the courses ETT051 Digital Communications and ETIN15 Radio systems.
Chapter 1: Background of LTE
Chapter 2: High Data Rates in Mobile Communication
Chapter 3: OFDM Transmission
Chapter 4: Wider-Band "Single-Carrier" Transmission
Chapter 5: Multi-Antenna Techniques
Chapter 6: Scheduling, Link Adaptation, and Hybrid ARQ
Chapter 7: LTE Radio Access: An Overview
Chapter 8: Radio-Interface Architecture
Chapter 9: Physical Transmission Resources
Chapter 10: Downlink Physical-Layer Processing
Chapter 11: Uplink Physical-Layer Processing
Chapter 12: Retransmission Protocols
Chapter 13: Power Control, Scheduling, and Interference Handling
Chapter 14: Access Procedures
Chapter 15: Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services
Chapter 16: Relaying
Chapter 17: Spectrum and RF Characteristics
Chapter 18: Performance
Chapter 19: Other Wireless Communication Systems
Chapter 20: Final Thoughts