Course Title: Advanced Mobile and Wireless Systems Engineering

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Advanced Mobile and Wireless Systems Engineering

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

EEET1083

City Campus

Undergraduate

125H Electrical & Computer Engineering

Face-to-Face

Sem 2 2006,
Sem 2 2007,
Sem 2 2008,
Sem 2 2009,
Sem 2 2010,
Sem 2 2011,
Sem 2 2012,
Sem 1 2013,
Sem 1 2014,
Sem 1 2015,
Sem 1 2016,
Sem 2 2016

EEET1083

City Campus

Undergraduate

172H School of Engineering

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2017,
Sem 1 2018,
Sem 1 2019,
Sem 1 2020,
Sem 1 2021,
Sem 1 2022,
Sem 1 2023

Course Coordinator: Professor Kandeepan Sithamparanathan

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2804

Course Coordinator Email: kandeepan.sithamparanathan@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 12-8-18

Course Coordinator Availability: Email for appointment


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

- You should have passed EEET2115 Communication Engineering 2
or
- signals and systems description in time and frequency domains, random signals and noise, analog and digital modulation, noise and signal to noise ratio calculations.


Course Description

Mobile and Personal Communication enable people to communicate on the go, anywhere, anytime.

Fast developing technologies are delivering more and more essential and exciting new services.

In this course you will learn the fundamental techniques for the design and analysis of mobile and personal communication systems.

Topics include Principles of Cellular Communication, Signal Propagation, Signal Fading and Shadowing, Advanced Modulation and Coding, OFDM Systems used in 5G Technology, Teletraffic Calculations, Co-channel and Same-cell Interference, Wireless Link Design, Coverage Prediction, multiple antenna communication (MIMO) and error correction codes.

Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. (This applies to students who commence enrolment in a bachelor honours program from 1 January 2016 onwards. See the WAM information web page for more information.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

This course contributes to the following Program Learning Outcomes:

1.3 In-depth understanding of specialist bodies of knowledge within the engineering discipline.

2.1 Application of established engineering methods to complex engineering problem solving.

2.2 Fluent application of engineering techniques, tools and resources.


On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Discuss the principles and operation of cellular communication systems
  2. Describe the concept of wireless communications, signal propagation, and wireless channels
  3. Perform teletraffic and interference calculations
  4. Analyse and design cellular wireless links
  5. Perform cellular coverage area calculations 


Overview of Learning Activities

You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities including pre-recorded lectures, Tutorials, and Lab Exercises. Delivery may be face to face, online or a mix of both.

You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course.


Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course. 

There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.


Overview of Assessment

This course has no hurdle requirements.

The fundamentals, concepts and technical problem solving with any numerical calculation skills will be assessed. All assessment tasks will also assess your ability to critically analyse results and provide arguments to support design decisions. Written feedback will be provided on all assessment tasks except for the Final Assessment.

Assessment tasks

Assessment Task 1: Mid-semester assessment
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1 & 2

This assessment is a timed and timetabled assessment that students must attend on campus except for international students who are outside Australia.

Assessment Task 2: Final assessment
Weighting 40%
This assessment task supports
CLOs 1, 2, 3 & 6

This assessment is a timed and timetabled assessment that students must attend on campus except for international students who are outside Australia.

Assessment Task 3: Lab-1 assessment
Weighting 20%
This assessment task supports CLOs 1, 2, 4 & 6

Assessment 4: Lab-2 assessment
Weighting 20%
This assessment supports CLOs 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6

This assessment is a timed and timetabled assessment that students must attend on campus except for international students who are outside Australia.

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.