1. CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS 1. Introduction and Administration

2. Welcome  “Cellular Communications” 181019  Tue 17:15-19:45  Room 031  Instructor: Sasha Apartsin  apartsin@gmail.com apartsin@gmail.com  Course Web Page  http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~apartzin/cellular http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~apartzin/cellular  Slides, References etc.

3. Some attributes of a “cellular network system” NetworkCellularMobileCommunicationsRadio Wireless

4. Some of the course subjects Multiple Access Techniques, GSM network nodes Spectrum reuse and cellular planning Protocols for session handoff and management Digital modulation and error-correcting coding Radio Wave Propagation

5. State of The Art  3G, 3.75G,3.9G, 4G/WiMAX and beyond  New modulation methods  New multiple access methods  New coding methods  Etc.  Novel applications and Services  Video Streaming  Location Based services (LBS)  Etc.

6. Prerequisites  Basic math and physics  Touch subjects from  Physics  Probability  Signal Processing  Speech Processing  Coding Theory  Cryptography  Networking

7. Course Structure  First half  Presentation of key concept and techniques  Hopefully guest lecturers with real life “war stories” from the industry  Slides will be available on course web page  Second half  Student presentations of advanced state-of-the-art subjects based on papers or book chapters  List of subjects/references will be published soon

8. Course Grade  45%: Extended summary of the subjects presented during the first half of the course  In groups of 2-3  List of subjects and references will be published soon  5-10 pages in Hebrew, no cut and paste  Some research required in wikipedia/google/textbooks  Extend, summarize and fill in missing details skipped during the class.  Concise, informative, self-contained clean presentation  Submission deadline: day of the last class @23:59  Send by e-mail in word format  Same grade for each member of the group  Volunteers for today’s lecture?

9. Course Grade-Cont’d  45% :Student presentation of advanced subjects  In pairs  20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for Q&A  Clean, concise, informative  Every member of the group should talk  List of recommended subjects/papers/references and instructions will be published soon  Submit(e-mail) PPT after the lecture  Efficient usage of presentation time is a major grading factor  Individual Grades  Bid for a time slot (last 5 lectures) starting from today  10% : presence and participation during the second half of the course.

10. Some Random Points  Balance between technical depth and important concepts/ideas  Some math/technical details is inevitable  Single 15 minutes break at 18:30