TEK4100 – Signal Processing in Wireless Communication Systems

After completing this course, you

• understand the fundamental building blocks of a communication system and their corresponding signal processing techniques
• have insight into the fundamental performance limitations and how to design optimal functions/methods to limit the error probability of the information
• are able to read and understand modern wireless standards both in order to design systems and to evaluate performance
• have the competance to investigate standards and systems, and to assess their suitability for various applications

The course is recommended for students with admission to Electronics, Informatics and Technology (master), with the programme option Signal Processing and Imaging (programme option). The course is also recommended for students focusing on signal processing within the programme options Microelectronics and Sensor Technology (programme option) and CS: Imaging and biomedical computing (programme option).

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

The course extends over a full semester with 2 hours of lectures and 2 hours of laboratory exercises per week.

This course has 2 mandatory assignments that must be approved before you can take the final exam.

• A final oral exam counts 100% towards the final grade.

In case of many students, the final exam may be written.

This course has 2 mandatory assignments which must be approved before you can take the final exam.

When writing your exercises make sure to familiarize yourself with the rules for use of sources and citations. Breach of these rules may lead to suspicion of attempted cheating.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for (one of) the following course(s):

• UNIK4170 – Digital communications (continued)
• INF2450 – Digital kommunikasjon (discontinued)
• INF3450 – Digital kommunikasjon (discontinued)
• INF4450 – Digital kommunikasjon (discontinued)

Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.

Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.