Communication- and energy-aware mission planning and control for cooperative UAVs
Virtual services for autonomous mobile systems
Satellite link for communications and ranging
High-speed data-center links
Probabilistic and statistical tools to detect network attacks
Digital signal processing techniques to audio time series
Project design, implementation and validation
Final project presentation
Optical fiber communications
Optical fiber networks: scenarios of application
Introduction to the key optoelectronic components for optical fiber communications
Linear and nonlinear propagation effects in single-mode optical fibers
Intensity-modulated and direct detection (IM-DD) systems: performance and scalability in short reach scenario for datacenter and Fiber-to-the-Home optical access networks
PM-QAM coherent transmission systems: performance and scalability for long haul ultra-high bit rate fiber links
Long-haul reconfigurable optical networks (seminar given by external experts)
Quantum cryptography (seminar given by external experts)
Transoceanic submarine systems (seminar given by external experts)
Information and communication theory
Basic concepts from Information Theory
Source coding for data compression
Channel capacity and capacity formula for the additive Gaussian channel
An elementary introduction to block and convolutional codes
Channel estimation (Single Carrier and OFDM)
Adaptive Equalization ML and MMSE (Single Carrier and OFDM)
Iterative channel decoders (LDPC, turbo, polar)
Carrier, Timing and Frame Synchronization
Wireless access electromagnetics
Introduction to antenna as system components
Antenna system parameters
Noiseless and noise link budget
Low and medium gain antennas for broadcasting, mobile communications, WiFi/WLAN, IoT (slot, patch, dipole)
UWB antennas
High-gain, reconfigurable and MIMO antennas (arrays) with beamforming
Fixed beam, scanning beam MIMO
Year 2 - Semester 1
Project: Applied communication systems and IoT
Project management and planning
Projects areas (still to be defined)
Project design, implementation and validation
Final project presentation
Internet performance and troubleshooting lab
Configuration of hosts in Local Area Networks, IP addresses management, subnetting/supernetting
Traffic monitoring using sniffers in LAN: TCP, UDP and HTTP
Performance measurement for file transfers in wired and WiFi networks
Impact of delay and packet losses
Analysis of traffic traces collected from real networks
Post-processing tools to extract information out of the raw data
Statistical methods and data mining techniques to find correlations and solve classification problems
Signal processing and optical transmission lab
Signal Processing laboratory:
DSP implementation of linear filters and their application to lossless audio compression
Program templates and input/output interfaces
Basic FIR and IIR filtering structures
Real-time filtering of audio signals
Lossless coding based on FIR predictors
Real-time lossless coding of audio signals, validation and testing
Optical Communications laboratory
Spectral measures of laser sources and their wavelength and power characterizations
Experimental procedure for the joint of optical fibers and corresponding measurement of the joint attenuation
Experimental characterization of passive optical devices
Realization of an optical amplifier and corresponding experimental characterization
Spectral characterization of optical sources through optical spectrum analyzers and high resolution methods
Signal processing and wireless transmission lab
Signal and Image Processing laboratory
Introduction to compression
Decorrelation techniques for signals and images
Quantization
Source coding
DSP architecture and development tools
DSP implementation of a compression algorithm
Program template and in/out interfaces
Predictor, quantizer, lossless source coder
Validation and testing
Wireless transmissions laboratory
Physical layer of broadband fixed and mobile radio-communication standards
Structure and main functions of conventional and software defined digital radio transceivers
Software defined radio (SDR) platforms Lab
Implementation on SDR platform (Ettus B210 and National Instruments USRP-2901) of some common transceiver blocks suitable for most wireless communication standards (WiFi, LTE, DVB)
Test and measurements of the performance of some implemented receiver algorithms
Open optical networks
State-of-the art transceivers for optical communications
Foundations of optical fiber propagation and modeling its impairments
Amplifiers and passive components
WDM spectral use and standards
ROADMs and node structure in general
YANG, Netconfig, GMPLS, OTN
Emulation of optical layer in photonic networks
Routing spectral and wavelength assignment
Multilayer orchestration
Physical-layer-aware network analysis, design and optimization
Computer system security
Computer systems (in)security: problems and attacks (sniffing, spoofing, DOS, ').
Authentication techniques (password, challenges, Kerberos) and related hardware devices (token and smart-card).
Network security: the IPsec standard to protect IP networks; security of the network configuration and management protocols; firewall and IDS to create protected subnets; virtual private networks (VPN); security of wireless networks.
Application security: e-mail protection (PGP, S/MIME), web security (SSL, TLS) and remote access protection (SSH, SSL, TLS), securing web applications.
Secure document workflow and e-commerce; national and international legislation about e documents; digital signature and e documents; the SET protocol and other e-payment systems.
5G and next-generation mobile computing
5G and beyond cellular connectivity
Network architecture
Radio Access Networks
Edge computing
Mobile service virtualisation
Virtual resource allocation
Hands-on approach to mobile services
Service orchestration
Advanced wireless communications
Multivariate information theory
Review of linear algebra
MIMO channels
Water-filling
Capacity of a deterministic MIMO channel
Ergodic capacity of a random MIMO channel
Nonergodic capacity and outage probability
Satellite navigation systems
Localisation and positioning techniques, radionavigation principles
