Exam 10.3.2008 results are now available. If you wish to review grading, contact prof. Jyri Hämäläinen. Exercise results will be available in a couple of weeks and may still improve your final grade.

All of you have now passed the manual assignment.

Example problems for the exam (pdf)

Course staff

Responsible teacher: prof. Jyri Hämäläinen
Head assistant: Mika Husso (M.Sc.)
Assistant (UMTS exercises): Mikko Valtonen (M.Sc.)

Course content 

Planning objectives and approaches, capacity and coverage planning, frequency planning/code planning, network optimization. Assignment focuses on planning and optimization tasks of modern radio access networks. The practical network planning assignment consists of dimensioning, detailed planning, and optimization tasks that are done using computer based tools.

Replaces courses S-72.3270 & S-72.3290

Course requirements

To pass the course you need to pass the exam and the computer assignments seperately. Note that possible extra points for doing the UMTS-exercises will not help you pass the course.

Course grade = Exam grade + 0.2 * Exercises grade. 

Course schedule

See 'Course Schedule (pdf)' for exact lecture times, exercise times and deadlines.

Lectures

Lecture material will be available here for every lecture in PDF.

Lecture 1 
Lecture 2 
Lecture 3 
Lecture 4 
Lecture 5 
Lecture 6
Lecture 7 
Lecture 8 
Lecture 9
Lecture 10 
Lecture 11 

Link to Excel-based GSM link budget calculation tool

Link to W-CDMA link budget (384 kbit/s data)

Link to W-CDMA link budget (speech)

Exercises

Helpful material provided by Mikko Valtonen regarding UMTS.

There will be three exercise rounds during the course. The exercises are voluntary, but your final course grade will be: exam grade + 0.2 * exercises grade. However, points won't help you pass the course, i.e. you need at least grade 1 from the exam to pass.

You need to return your solutions on the deadline day not later than at 16.00 to the return box on the 2nd floor outside Communications Laboratory (from 1.1.2008 officially Department of Communications and Networking).

1st round (deadline 5.2.)     + solutions
2nd round (deadline 26.2.)  + solutions
3rd round (deadline 4.3.)    + solutions

Manual assignment

No computer assignments will be held since we didn't get the licenses. They will be replaced by a manual assignment.

To complete the manual assignment you have to select 2 of the 3 exercises given in the zip-file below and return them by 29.2. at 16.00. The results (pass/fail) will be given by 7.3. If you don't pass we will need you to make the required corrections by 12.3. at 16.00. It doesn't matter which 2 you choose, they are all equally valuable.

Link to the assignment zip-file (including all the documents).

Updated by: Mika Husso, 20.3.2008