EL4201 Advanced Wireless Communication Networks Syllabus:
EL4201 Advanced Wireless Communication Networks Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To understand the characteristics and advancements of UMTS and LTE Architecture.
Understand the 5G Building blocks and Use Cases.
Understand various wireless networking standards such as 4G and 5G.
To understand 5G Networking principles.
To have a good understanding of emerging wireless networks such as massive machine type communication
UNIT I 4G ARCHITECTURE
Overview of current advanced wireless technologies – High Level architecture of 4G – Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network – Evolved Packet Core – Communication Protocols – Bearer Management. Architecture of LTE Air Interface – Air Interface protocol stack , logical, physical and transport channels, The Resource grid, Resource element mapping.MAC Protocol – Radio Link Control Protocol – Packet Data Convergence Protocol.
UNIT II 5G ARCHITECTURE AND MILLIMETER WAVE COMMUNICATIONS
Key building blocks of 5G – 5G use cases and System Concepts – The 5G Architecture. Millimeter Wave Communications : Hardware technologies for mmW systems-Architecture and mobility – Massive MIMO – Resource Allocation and Transceiver algorithms for Massive MIMO
UNIT III 5G WAVEFORMS AND CHANNEL MODELS
5G Radio Access Technologies: Design principles – Multi-carrier with filtering – Non-orthogonal Multiple Access – Radio access for dense deployments – Radio Access for V2X Communication – Radio access for massive machine-type communication – 5G wireless propagation channel models: Modeling requirements and scenarios – The METIS channel models.
UNIT IV NETWORKING IN 5G
Coordinated multi-point transmission in 5G: Joint Transmission CoMP enablers – Distributed cooperative transmission – JT CoMP with advanced receivers – Relaying and network coding in 5G: Multi-flow wireless backhauling – Buffer-aided relaying.
UNIT V EVALUATION OF 5G AND 5G APPLICATIONS
Machine-type communications: Fundamental techniques for MTC – Massive MTC – Ultra-reliable low-latency MTC – Device-to-device (D2D) communications – Multi-hop D2D communications – Multi-operator D2D communication – Simulation methodology: Evaluation methodology – Calibration – New challenges in the 5G modeling
45 PERIODS
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES:
1:Modeling of 4G LTE – A System
2: Design of Radio Network Access for 4G Networks
3: Modeling of 5G Networks
4: Design of Radio Network Access for 5G Systems
5: Design of Smart Antenna System
PRACTICALS:
1. Modeling a 4G LTE System
2. Test and Measurement of 4G LTE Baseband signals
3. Design of MIMO System
4. Analysis and study of millimetre wave applications
5. Simulation of NOMA Principles
6. METIS Modeling
7. Simulation of Joint Transmission CoMP
8. Analysis of buffer-aided relaying
9. Design of Massive MTC.
10 Implementation and testing of Device to Device Communication
30 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to
CO1: Understand and develop 4G LTE Networks
CO2: Understand and develop 5G Building blocks
CO3: Understand and develop 5G Radio Access Technologies
CO4: Understand and develop Networking in 5G
CO5: Understand and develop Device to Device Communication
TOTAL:75 PERIODS
REFERENCES
1. Christopher Cox, “ An Introduction to LTE, LTE-Advanced, SAE and 4G Mobile Communications”, Wiley publications, 2012.
2. AfifOsseiran, Jose F. Monserrat and Patrick Marsch, – 5G Mobile and Wireless Communications Technology, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
3. Wei Xiang, Kan Zheng, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, – 5G Mobile Communications, Springer, 2017.
4. Jonathan Rodriguez, – Fundamentals of 5G mobile networks, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.
5. Sassan Ahmadi, “LTE-Advanced – A practical systems approach to understanding the 3GPP LTE Releases 10 and 11 radio access technologies”, Elsevier, 2014.