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ELEC_ENG 495: The 3GPP 5G NR standard: From theory to practice


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Prerequisites

Undergraduate-level digital communications and digital signal processing. Familiarity with Matlab and C programming is desirable.

Description

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: 3GPP 5G new radio, communications standardization process, protocol stack, hardware/software implementation.

DESCRIPTION: This course will cover various aspects of the 5G new radio (NR) protocol stack, starting from the different blocks in a digital communication system, concepts of carrier frequency, bandwidth, SNR, link budget calculation, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and its advantages and challenges, and moving on to discuss the standardization process, 5G NR terminology,  the 5G NR system architecture and network elements, the physical, MAC, radio resource control layers, transport channel processing, retransmission protocols, scheduling, transmit power control, multiple antenna support and beam management in 5G, network access procedures, and how all of these come together in practice using an open-source 5G platform. This will be a hands-on, practically oriented course. 

REFERENCE TEXTBOOKS: 

  1. Dahlman, Parkvall, and Skold, 5G NR: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology, 2nd Edition, Academic Press, 2020.

  2. C. Johnson, 5G New Radio in Bullets, 2019.

COURSE COORDINATOR: Dr. Chandra Murthy (Spring)

DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: 

Week 1: Communications fundamentals and introduction to 5G

Week 2: 5G spectrum and LTE overview

Week 3: 5g NR overview and radio interface architecture

Week 4: 5G stack and open-source implementation; overall transmission structure

Week 5: Mid-term presentations

Week 6: Time-frequency structure of NR, channel sounding

Week 7: Transport channel processing and control signaling

Week 8: Multi-antenna support in 5G NR

Week 9: Retransmission techniques, scheduling, and power control

Week 10: Cell search and random access techniques

COMPUTER USAGE: For hands-on experiments on using the open-source 5G stack, students will be provided access to suitable computers, or they can use their own laptops if they are sufficiently powerful. 

GRADING: 

Class participation: 10%
Assignments: 10%
Quizzes: 20%
Mid-term presentations: 30%
Final presentations: 40%

COURSE OBJECTIVES: At the end of the course, the student should: 

  1. Be familiar with how radio-frequency spectrum is allocated
  2. Understand the standardization process and how standards are created
  3. Have an in-depth understanding of the 5G new radio protocol stack
  4. Be able to browse 3GPP standards documents and understand the language
  5. Map 3GPP standards to its implementation in a 5G new radio software stack

 ABET CONTENT CATEGORY: 100% engineering (design component)