FITech Internet-of-things wireless communications

This course focuses on the requirements, enabling techniques, use cases and applications of the different Wireless Communications technologies for realizing and enabling the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Internet-of-Everything worlds.

After passing this course, the students have good and comprehensive understanding of the potential, requirements, use cases and core enabling techniques for realizing the future Internet-of-Things (IoT) system and networks. Particular emphasis is on the wireless communications physical layer and radio system/network aspects techniques.

Different IoT requirements and use cases from wireless communications perspective

• massive MTC
• mission critical MTC
• ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) and MTC

Enabling Wireless Communications methods and systems and their key features, characteristics, pros and cons, including:

• low-range local area techniques (Bluetooth, Zigbee, Z-wave, etc) for IoT systems
• wider-range techniques (e.g. IEEE 802.11ah) for IoT systems
• wide-area techniques at unlicensed/ISM bands (LoRa, SigFox) for IoT systems
• wide-area cellular network based techniques available today, especially extended coverage GSM (EC-GSM), 3GPP LTE-M, 3GPP Narrowband IoT
• wide-area cellular network based techniques currently in the R&D phase, especially 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) and massive MTC and mission-critical MTC solutions

Ultra reliable and low latency communications (URLLC) concept

Synchronization, modulation, and multiple access issues in IoT

Practical examples of short-, medium-, and long-range IoT applications

Link budget computations in IoT
 

Basic math, basics of signals and systems