BASIC COMPETENCIES

. Students have demonstrated knowledge and understanding in a field of study that has its foundations on the general secondary education, and it is typically at a level which, although it is based on advanced textbooks, includes some aspects that involve knowledge of the forefront of their field of study.

. Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have skills typically demonstrated through devising and defending arguments and solving problems within their field of study.

. Students have the ability to gather and analyse relevant data (usually within their field of study) to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical aspects.

. Students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.

. Students have developed those skills needed to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.



COMPETENCIES OF THE GRADE

. Knowledge of basic subjects and technologies that enable the student to learn new methods and technologies and that will give him or her the versatility to adapt to new situations.

. Ability to solve problems with initiative, decision making, creativity, and to communicate and transmit knowledge and skills, understanding the ethical and professional responsibility of the activity of a Technical Telecommunications Engineer.

. Ability to work in a multidisciplinary group and in a multilingual environment and communicate, both in writing and orally, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas related to telecommunications and electronics.



SPECIALTY COMPETENCIES OF THE TELEMATICS MODULE

. Ability to apply the fundamental techniques of the networks, services and data communication applications, such as management systems, signaling and switching, routing, security (cryptographic protocols, tunneling, firewall, tarification mechanisms, authentication and contents protection), traffic engineering (graph theory, queuing theory and teletraffic) pricing and reliability and quality of service, either in fixed, mobile, personal, local or long distance environments with different bandwidths, including telephony and data.



LEARNING RESULTS.

. The students will be able to describe the problems and the particular needs that arise in the provision of telecommunication services due to the wireless mobile environment, and will also be able to analyse comprehensively and compare alternative solutions to address these problems.

. The students will be able to search and analyse information on a mobile technology, working in a team. They will be able to analyse and understand in depth and, in most cases, experimentally test this technology as a prerequisite to achieve the following learning outcomes.

. The students will be able to prepare an oral presentation on the technology that has been analysed, present it to the class and satisfactorily answer questions about it.

. The students will be able to discuss the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of mobile technologies, and compare them reasonably.

1. Mobile networks and services: Introduction and context.

2. Technological requirements of the mobile environment.

3. Mobile network technologies.

Regarding the teaching methodology, the course is divided into two parts. In the first 6 weeks of the course lectures are used to present the first two units. In the second part of the course (9 weeks) the class is organised in work groups to analyse different mobile technologies and present them to the class. Seminar classes and classroom practices are used in this stage to accomplish these tasks.

In the ordinary exam call, the mark will be the sum of 3 parts:

A. Partial examination: 10% of the mark

B. Analysis of technologies: 40% of the mark

C. Final examination: 50% of the mark



In order to pass the course, the students must meet the following conditions (all of them):

- Have participated actively in one of the working groups on technology.

- In the weighted sum (A + B * 0.1 * 0.4 * 0.5 + C), get at least 5 points (out of 10).

- In the weighted sum (A + C * 0.1 * 0.5), obtain at least 4 points (out of 10).



To decline to sit in the ordinary call of the course will be enough not to attend the final written test of the ordinary call.



If a student wants to decline the ongoing assessment, he/she must proceed according to the procedure and deadlines established in the Article 8.3 of the Student Assessment Rules of the UPV/EHU.

Documentation available in the virtual classroom of the course in eGela.

Basic bibliography

- "IP in Wireless Networks". Basavaraj Patil et al. Ed. Prentice Hall, 2003.

- "The Wireless Mobile Internet: Architectures, Protocols and Services". Abbas Jamalipour. Ed. John Wiley and Sons, 2003.

– "Mobile IP: Present State and Future". Abdul Sakib Mondal. Ed.Springer, 2003.

– "An Introduction to Wireless Technology". DeCain. IBM RedBooks (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com), 1995.

In-depth bibliography

– "UMTS Networks: Architecture, Mobility and Services". Heikki Kaaranen et al. John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
– "Mobile Data and Wireless LAN Technologies". Cupertino. 1ª Ed. Prentice Hall, 1997.
– Apuntes de la asignatura "Conmutación I" de la UPM.
– "The GSM System for Mobile Communications". Mouly, Pautet. Telecom Publishing, 1992.
– "General Packet Radio Service". Bates. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
– "Comunicaciones móviles de tercera generación, UMTS", vol. 2, segunda edición, J. M. Hernando Rábanos, C. Lluch Mesquida. Telefónica Móviles, 2001.
– "802.11 Wireless Networks: The definitive Guide". Gast. O’Reilly, 2002.
– "Wireless LANs: implementing interoperable networks". J. Geier, McMillan Technical Publishing, 1999.
– "Bluetooth: Implementation and Use". Morrow. McGraw-Hill, 2002.
– "Mobile IP, the Internet unplugged". Solomon. Prentice Hall, 1998.
– "LTE: Nuevas tendencias en comunicaciones móviles". R. Agusti et al. Ed. Fundación Vodafone España, 2010.https://proyectolte.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/lte-nuevas-tendencias.pdf

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