2022/2023
Communications Systems Design
Code: 42837 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4313797 Telecommunication Engineering | OB | 1 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Angeles Vazquez Castro
- Email:
- angeles.vazquez@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
External teachers
- Aitor Sánchez Abellán
Prerequisites
It is required background on Digital Communications and Communication Systems.
Objectives and Contextualisation
El diseño de ingeniería de sistemas es un campo interdisciplinario hacia la conceptualización, optimización y realización de sistemas de ingeniería robustos y fiables.
Los requisitos y funcionalidades de diseño del sistema están orientados al cliente y pueden volverse altamente interdisciplinarios y complejos. Las alternativas de diseño y la validación del sistema son parte del proceso de diseño, que requiere esfuerzos de equipo interdisciplinarios.
A diferencia de lo que aprende un estudiante universitario de ingeniería, el objetivo general de esta asignatura es aprender a cómo pensar, más que a aprender qué pensar.
Los objetivos detallados incluyen que los estudiantes se familiaricen con el pensamiento sistémico a través del trabajo en equipo interdisciplinario para el diseño de un sistema complejo. El contenido del tema proporciona pautas de trabajo pero nunca reglas exactas, que dependen del proyecto y del equipo.
Ejemplos reales de diseño de sistemas de comunicaciones serán impartidos por ingenieros profesionales del diseño de sistemas.
Competences
- Capacity for applying theory of information methods, adaptative modulation and channel coding as well as advanced techniques for digital signal processing in telecommunications and audiovisual systems.
- Capacity for designing and dimensioning transport, diffusion and distribution networks for multimedia signals.
- Capacity for implementing systems using cable, lines, satellite in fixed and mobile communications environments.
- Capacity for modelling, designing, introducing, managing, operating, administrating and maintaining networks, services and content.
- Capacity for planning, decision-making and packaging of networks, services and applications considering the quality of service, direct and operating costs, the implementation plan, supervision, security procedures, scaling and maintenance and for managing and ensuring quality in the development process.
- Demonstrate an entrepreneurial, creative and innovative spirit
- Student should possess the learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a way that is largely student led or independent
- Students should know how to apply the knowledge they have acquired and their capacity for problem solving in new or little known fields within wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the area of study
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an entrepreneurial, creative and innovative spirit
- Design and obtain coding and modulation techniques in communications systems.
- Design communications systems considering quality requirements and the services offered.
- Design systems considering quality requirements and communications services.
- Identify and classify multimedia diffusion and distribution mechanisms in radio access networks.
- Recognise design strategies for mechanisms to assign resources in radio access networks.
- Student should possess the learning skills that enable them to continue studying in a way that is largely student led or independent
- Students should know how to apply the knowledge they have acquired and their capacity for problem solving in new or little known fields within wider (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the area of study
- Students should know how to communicate their conclusions, knowledge and final reasoning that they hold in front of specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously
Content
Clases teóricas:
1. Introducción: sistema de pensamiento.
2. Diseño de sistemas de ingeniería.
3. Elementos de sistemas de comunicación y sistemas embebidos.
4. Fases de diseño: planteamiento del problema y requisitos.
5. Fases de diseño: arquitectura funcional y física.
6. Fases de diseño: Verificación y validación del sistema (V&V).
7. Codiseño de hardware y software: compensaciones.
8. Definición y estimación de recursos.
Laboratorio:
Sesión 0. Ideación del sistema.
Sesión 1. Declaración del problema y reunión de requisitos.
Sesión 2. Diseño del sistema: arquitectura funcional y física.
Sesión 3. Verificación y validación del sistema (V&V).
Sesión 4. Presentaciones de los proyectos por parte de los alumnos.
Methodology
The methodology will consist of lectures and study cases.
The students will be given two examples of requirements-driven full design study cases after which, teams of students will work on their own (interdisciplinary) design cases.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Supervised | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 7, 6 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Student's work | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Lectures | 86 | 3.44 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
Assessment
Evaluation
- Theory: 50% (individual evaluation)
- 50% Concepts questionnaire
- 50% System Functional Analysis
- Laboratory: 50% (team evaluation)
- 50% Lab Sessions deliverables
- 50% Final Report and Presentation
Students will have the option to improve the obtained qualifications both, in case of failure or low score (<7).
This will be done by providing the students with a set of specific potential improvements over the presenteddesign, to be delivered before the final qualification is decided.
Students will obtain a "NOT PRESENTED" qualification whenever no evaluation records exist for the student during the overall evaluation period.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | A | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
| B | 0.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 4, 3, 8 |
| C | 0.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
| D | 0.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 6 |
Bibliography
1. Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, David Tegarden, "Systems Analysis and Design: An Object Oriented Approach with UML", 5th Edition, Wiley April 2015.
2. Dennis M. Buede, "The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods", Wiley 2009.
Software
Not required.