Course Contents

The summer course will give an overview on UMTS, W-LANs and SATELLITE INTERNET, topics of great relevance for the professional life of Engineers.
The amount of academic hours (lessons+visits) will be a minimum of 30. Hopefully the balance between lessons and outdoor visits will give you the opportunity to learn more about the topic without sleeping too much in a classroom.

The lectures will be hold by:

Prof. Roberto Cusani(Professor responsible)....

Prof. Francesco Delli Priscoli....

Prof. Gennaro Fedele....

Academic Aprogram

• INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL NETWORKS FOR DATA, VOICE AND VIDEO
  
  

  Digital representation of voice and video signals; vocoders The telecommunication world: Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), Integrated System Data Network (ISDN), the Internet world, Local Area Networks (LANs), Radio cellular networks Digital transmission baseband/modulation; bandwidth occupancy
  
  

• WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLANs)
  
  

  WHATIS A WLAN Reasons for a WLAN State of the art: 802.11, Bluetooth, Hyperlan2 Home/Office applications
  
  

• SATELLITE INTERNET
  
  

  The last mile problem Analogical satellite systems Digital satellite systems: first generation, second generation Technical problems: Resource management, Connection Admission Control (CAC), Medium Access Control (MAC), On-board Buffer Congestion, Congestion Control
  
  

• FUNDAMENTAL OF UMTS
  
  

  Definitions, Convergence, New technologies, Market forecasts, Cell coverage, Timing for services, Spectrum allocation, Bit rates and time-for-service, The international coordination.
  
  

• UMTS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
  
  

  Operational specs, UTRA interface, FDD and TDD, Paired and unpaired spectrum, The near-far problem and the power control, Soft handover, System performance.
  
  

• FUNDAMENTALS OF CDMA
  
  

  The multiple access techniques: FDMA, TDMA and CDMA, The concept of the spread spectrum system, The performance of a CDMA system, Pseudonoise sequences, Autocorrelation and cross-correlation, Orthogonal functions, Multipath radio channels and rake reception.
  
  

• PHYSICAL LAYER
  
  

  Transport channels and physical channels, Spreading and modulation, Signalling, Physical layer procedures.
  
  

• RADIO INTERFACE PROTOCOL
  
  

  Protocol architecture, The medium access control protocol, The radio link control protocol, The packet data convergence protocol, The broadcast/multicast control protocol, The radio resource control protocol.
  
  

• THE UMTS ACCESS NETWORK
  
  

  Topology and main entities; The main UMTS innovative features (CDMA, macrodiversity, seamless handover); The W-CDMA access technique; The target UMTS Quality of Service (QoS); Cell dimensioning for the support of the expected traffic with the target QoS.
  
  

• THE UMTS CORE NETWORK
  
  

  Topology and main entities; The Non-Access Stratum (NAS) procedures; Relationships and synergies between UMTS and Internet.
  
  

• SATELLITE UMTS (S-UMTS)
  
  

  The satellite role; The S-UMTS proposal by ESA; The integration between terrestrial and satellite UMTS.
  
  

Social Activities

If you are a positive person, restless when your mom says it is time to sleep, ready to have fun together with newly made friends from all Europe...then just trust us, and don't tell your mom about it!!!

Singing, dancing, wine tasting in pubs, real italian food and language, sightseeing in the "Eternal City", shopping in the centre, romantic walking under the moon light are just some hints of what we have in mind for you...

but if you are really curious, just let say that we are ready to offer you 2 of the most unforgetable weeks in all your life... you will enjoy with us the italian way of having fun, and we will do our best to make you enjoy your time so to start a friendship that hopefully will last a lifetime.

if you want to know all the story.... you have only to be among the lucky ones that will come here and help us to write it!