Advanced Wireless Communications

Discipline List

Synthesis

The AWC curriculum is taught in English and covers the main theoretical and practical aspects for engineers in the field of wireless communications.

AWC students will discover the secrets of advanced wireless communications techniques and technologies.

The presented subjects help engineers broaden their knowledge and skills in the wireless communications field and allow them to develop a career either in industry or in the academic field.

Incoming Erasmus students will be given access to all the courses.

The AWC Dissertation thesis (final document and presentation) can include only the student's personal work (the contribution in terms of simulation, implementation, testing, etc.) Hence, all the introduction and state-of-the-art chapters related to the dissertation subject can be presented during the first three semesters of study as results of the Research Activities and are not included in the Dissertation work.

6 out of 17 AWC professors have the PhD Habilitation title.

During 2014-2019, more than 20% of the foreign AWC graduates were accepted as PhD students at our SD-ETTI-B doctoral school.

For whom is the program intended?

The AWC program is dedicated to graduated engineers (Romanian or foreign candidates with a good command of English) in the fields of Electronics and Telecommunications, Computer Science and Information Technology, Automation Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management.

Master program's objectives

The AWC students will be able to conduct design and testing procedures for wireless communications systems and networks, from the physical layer to the application layer. The focus will be particularly on the physical layer, which has to get an adequate level of reliability of the communication link that ensure the required level of application quality of service (QoS) as well as mobility. Due to the special dynamics of the concerned areas, it is aimed at combining all principle aspects regarding the latest technological trends.

These objectives can be achieved through:

• Increasing knowledge of the electronic and telecommunications bachelors (graduated engineers) in the field of radio communications;

• Creating conditions for exchanging both students and teachers between universities and for putting them in touch to the latest concerns in Europe and the world by developing teaching in English;

• Attracting major economic players in the industry (operators, equipment development companies, application developers, regulatory bodies and other companies interested in wireless communications and mobility access systems) in preparing students in this field. Based on some informal discussions Orange and FreeScale are interested in the development of this program.

Specialized competencies offered to program's graduates

• The ability to specify, plan, track and execute a technical project in the field of advanced wireless communication;

• Getting a comprehensive picture on the advanced detection and recovery techniques of data transmitted over wireless channels (reception diversity, modulation/demodulation techniques, channel coding/decoding, equalization, detection, etc.);
• The ability to design and implement on the field a radio access system, in a variety of wireless communication technologies;

• Design, implementation and management of small and large radio networks, in order to ensure safe access and guaranteed performance;

• The ability to analyse and determine the system-level specification of physical layer equipments and their higher level modules;

• The ability to specify services and applications for wireless communications, to develop such small and medium-scale applications and to implement them in a wireless communication system;

• The ability to solve professional tasks with precise identification of objectives to be achieved, potential risk factors, available resources, financial aspects, working conditions, time schedule and execution terms;

• The ability of responsibly working in a multidisciplinary team with abilities to assume roles specific to different hierarchical levels;

• Capacity to identify the need for continuous education and efficient use of information sources, communication resources and assisted training (Internet portals, specialized software, databases, online courses) in English language.

Research directions examples

• IoT Smart City

• Design and analysis of a microstrip antenna for 5G applications

• Non-orthogonal multiple access in 5G wireless communications

• IoT and Virtualization on Smart Agriculture use case

• FPGA implementation of echo and reverberation audio effects

• Secure E2E communication system for IoT

• Deploying applications in SDN networks

• MPLS solutions implemented in a virtual private network using the Netkit environment

• Implementation of blockchain and improving security of an IoT network

• Double Threshold based Energy Detection for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

• Mobile Remote-Control using Cloud Technology