Mobile and Telematic Systems

Higher education teachers: Bešter Janez

Subject description

Content (Syllabus outline):

• Characteristics of mobile systems (assigned radio spectrum, cellular coverage, radio channel capacity, radio resources and mobility management).
• Commercial mobile networks 2G, 3G and 4G (network architecture of GSM, UMTS and LTE for delivering the voice, data and messaging, advanced service architectures IMS/IN, security provisioning).
• Wireless local area networks WiFi (architectures, connectivity, management, security).
• Short range wireless communications (Bluetooth, ZigBee, RFID, NFC, proprietary).
• Positioning topics (overview of satellite communication and navigation systems, positioning in mobile and wireless networks).
• Telematics (telematics overview, planning service architectures, topics from traffic, Internet of Things, smart cities, smart grids, health systems).

Objectives and competences:

The elective course provides a systematic overview of mobile and telematic systems and services laying emphasis on understanding of characteristics, operation principles and development activities. The course is suitable for all interested students not regarding study field.

Learning and teaching methods:

• Lectures and laboratory work with possible practical project work.
• Written and oral exam in the form of extended discussion about the subject.

Study materials

1. Sauter, M., From GSM to LTE-Advanced: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2014
2. Vehicular Communications and Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Operation and Deployment (Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials) Hardcover – April 1, 2015by Wai Chen (Editor)ISBN-13: 978-1782422112 ISBN-10: 1782422110 Edition: 1st
3. Inclusive Smart Cities and e-Health: 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, Geneva, Switzerland, June 10-12, ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) Paperback – July 14, 2015by Antoine Geissbuhler (Editor), Jacques Demongeot (Editor), Mounier Mokhtari (Editor), Bessam Abdulrazak (Editor), Hamdi Aloulou (Editor)
4. Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and Multisensor Integrated Navigation Systems, Second Edition (Artech House Remote Sensing Library) Hardcover – April 1, 2013by Paul D. Groves (Author)ISBN-13: 978-1608070053 ISBN-10: 1608070050 Edition: 2nd
5. Picone, M., Advanced Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Springer, Heidelberg, 2014