Emergent Topics in Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

Recommended Prerequisites

Digital Communication Systems.

Optical Communication Systems.

Teaching Methods

The course encompasses both seminar and tutorial classes. Seminars will be used for presentation and discussion of the emergent topics, while providing the ssencial theoretical background. Whenever possible top field experts will be invited to present their breakthrough research.

Within the framework of the topics discussed in the seminar lectures, each student should identify a subject of his/her interest whose knowledge he/she intends to study, and write the project proposal that will be carried out within the course. The tutorial classes will support the student individual project.

Learning Outcomes

In this course the students will acquire skills on emergent research topics of these different types of communication systems in an unified framework. In this course the students will learn advanced topics of wireless radio frequency (RF) communications systems, optical wireless communications, and fiber-optic communications, along with a strong contextualization of the state-of-the-art and emergent technologies within these fields.

Usually, these different types of communication systems are considered at separate disciplines. However, the key concepts, such as propagation principles, modulation formats, channel coding, diversity principles, MIMO signal processing, equalization, adaptive modulation and coding, detection principles, and software-defined transmission are common. There is also an ongoing convergence on the interoperability and complementarity of these systems.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 – Optical and Wireless Communication Channels: historical perspective and future

2 – Advanced Modulation, Diversity and MIMO techniques

3 – Emergent Technologies in Wireless Communications

4 – Emergent Technologies in Optical Communications

5 – Optical and Wireless Communication Convergence for 5G and Beyond.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria do Carmo Raposo de Medeiros

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Project: 25.0%
Research work: 25.0%
Oral presentation : 25.0%

Bibliography

-Both wireless and optical system addressed topics are covered by the handouts provided by the teachers.  - - -A list of supporting research papers will be provided to the students for each topic.

- For personal further reading:

•Ivan B. Djordjevic, “Advanced Optical and Wireless Communications Systems”, Springer, 2018

•A. Abdalla, J. Rodriguez, I. Elfergani and A. Teixeira, “Optical and Wireless Convergence for 5G Networks”, Wiley – IEEE Press, 2020.

•E. Björnson, J. Hoydis and L. Sanguinetti, “Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency”, Now, 2017

•T. Marzetta, E. Larson, H. Yang and H. Ngo, “Fundamentals of Massive MIMO”, Cambridge University Press, 2016

•Xiang Zhou and Chongjin Xie, “Enabling Technologies for High Spectral-efficient Coherent Optical Communication Networks”, John Wiley and Sons, 2015.