Building Mobile and Wireless Networks Compendium

Disclaimer: This compendium provides information on aspects of radio wave propagation, antennas, system aspects, and handover schemes for mobile and wireless systems. The compendium is foreseen for the UNIK4700 course on Building Mobile and Wireless Networks, and is kept on the system aspects level. UNIK has several courses on Radio and Network technologies as part of the Wireless Networks and Security (WNaS) research area.

= UNIK 4700 Building Mobile and Wireless Networks=


 * title: Building Mobile and Wireless Networks
 * subtitle: Table-of-Content
 * author: Josef Noll
 * subfooter: UNIK4700/UNIK9700

=⌘ History and Future =
 * History of wireless communications
 * Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi and other pioneers
 * 1G, 2G ... 5G networks
 * Frequencies and Standards
 * Future Challenges

=⌘ TOC - Basics of Communication=
 * Electromagnetic Signals
 * Radio Communication Principles
 * Digital communication: Nyquist, Signal/Noise Ratio
 * Signal strength and Capacity: Shannon

= ⌘TOC - Antennas and Propagation =
 * Free Space Propagation
 * Antennas, Gain, Radiation Pattern
 * Multipath Propagation, Reflection, Diffraction
 * Attenuation, Scattering
 * Interference and Fading (Rayleigh, Rician, …)
 * Mobile Communication dependencies

What have we learned?

 * antenna characteristics and gain
 * what happens if I double the frequency (900 - 1800 - 2400 MHz)?
 * minimum GSM receiver sensitivity
 * typical receiver power at 900 MHz (GSM channel sounder - rural)
 * typical received power at 1800 MHz (GSM channel sounder - rural)
 * difference City - rural - indoor
 * principal operation of MIMO

= ⌘TOC - Propagation models =
 * Environments (indoor, outdoor to indoor, vehicular)
 * Outdoor (Lee, Okumura, Hata, COST231 models)
 * Indoor (One-slope, multiwall, linear attenuation)

=⌘TOC System Comparison =
 * Proximity: RFID, NFC
 * Short Range: ZigBee, Bluetooth, ANT+,...
 * WLAN/Wifi/802.11...
 * Mobile: GSM, UMTS, IMT-A (WiMAX, LTE)

=⌘TOC - Mobility =
 * Mobile Network mobility
 * IP mobility

=⌘TOC - Network Building =
 * Future Networks: Heterogeneity, Basic Internet, Video Distribution Networks
 * Coverage simulations
 * Traffic simulations
 * Network Capacity simulations