CELLULAR
COMMUNICATIONS
1. Introduction and Administration
Welcome
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“Cellular Communications” 181019
Tue 17:15-19:45
Room 031
Instructor: Sasha Apartsin
[email protected]
Course Web Page
 http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~apartzin/cellular
 Slides,
References etc.
Some attributes of a “cellular network system”
Network
Cellular
Mobile
Communications
Radio Wireless
Some of the course subjects
Multiple Access Techniques,
GSM network nodes
Spectrum reuse and cellular
planning
Protocols for session
handoff and management
Digital modulation and
error-correcting coding
Radio Wave Propagation
State of The Art
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3G, 3.75G ,3.9G, 4G/WiMAX and beyond
 New
modulation methods
 New multiple access methods
 New coding methods
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Novel applications and Services
 Video
Streaming
 Location Based services (LBS)
 Etc.
Prerequisites
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Basic math and physics
Touch subjects from
 Physics
 Probability
 Signal
Processing
 Speech Processing
 Coding Theory
 Cryptography
 Networking
Course Structure
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First half
 Presentation
of key concept and techniques
 Hopefully guest lecturers with real life “war stories”
from the industry
 Slides will be available on course web page
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Second half
 Student
presentations of advanced state-of-the-art
subjects based on papers or book chapters
 List of subjects/references will be published soon
Course Grade
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45%: Extended summary of the subjects presented during
the first half of the course
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In groups of 2-3
List of subjects and references will be published soon
5-10 pages in Hebrew, no cut and paste
Some research required in wikipedia/google/textbooks
Extend, summarize and fill in missing details skipped during
the class.
Concise, informative, self-contained clean presentation
Submission deadline: day of the last class @23:59
Send by e-mail in word format
Same grade for each member of the group
Volunteers for today’s lecture?
Course Grade-Cont’d
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45% :Student presentation of advanced subjects
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In pairs
20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for Q&A
Clean, concise , informative
Every member of the group should talk
List of recommended subjects/papers/references and instructions
will be published soon
Submit(e-mail) PPT after the lecture
Efficient usage of presentation time is a major grading factor
Individual Grades
Bid for a time slot (last 5 lectures) starting from today
10% : presence and participation during the second half of
the course.
Some Random Points
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Balance between technical depth and important
concepts/ideas
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Some math/technical details is inevitable
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Single 15 minutes break at 18:30