1. Telecommunication Networks: B. Sc. Projects Orientation

2. Preliminaries What should you gain out of your B.Sc. Project?
Learn the METHODOLOGY of doing a project
Plan a work schedule & achieve it
Being original
Defy obstacles on your own
Document your work
Work in a team
Apply the information you study from different courses in one common project.
What kind of ENGINEER are you really going to turn out to be?

3. Practical &Production
Preliminaries
What types of B.Sc. Projects are out there?
Study & Design
Practical &Production
Research

4. Practical &Production
Preliminaries
What types of B.Sc. Projects are out there?
Study & Design
Practical &Production
Research
Research:
Contribute to the advancement of technology.
It is challenging & satisfying to be the first to do something
Aiming for a masters degree?

5. Practical &Production
Preliminaries
What types of B.Sc. Projects are out there?
Study & Design
Practical &Production
Research
Study & Design:
Master the understanding of material you study in different courses
Develop, design and implement a simulation model

6. Practical &Production
Preliminaries
What types of B.Sc. Projects are out there?
Study & Design
Practical &Production
Research
Practical & Production:
Have an output product/Hardware (not just curves from a MATLAB model)
A type of activity you would do possibly in work when you graduate

7. Integrated Wireless Indoor Planning & Optimization Tool for LTE Networks

8. Mobile Data Tremendous Traffic Growth
CAGR: Compound Annual Growth Rate
1 Exa Byte = 1 Billion (109) Giga Byte
[Ref] Cisco, “Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2013–2018”, White Paper Feb .2014

9. Predominant Indoor Data Traffic
Indoor Planning & Optimization a Key Figure in
Coping with Indoor Data Traffic Growth
[Ref] Nokia Siemens, “Improving 4G coverage and capacity indoors and at hotspots with LTE femtocells”, White Paper 2011

10. Distributed Antenna System

11. LTE-A Relay

12. Femto Cells

13. Projects: Capacity of DAS & Relay
How Many Antennas?
Where to Install Them?

14. Projects Turbo Ray Tracing

15. Image Theory

16. Proposed Turbo Ray tracing

17. Projects: Calibration

18. Related Work

19. SDR RFID Reader

20. RF IDs

21. RF ID System Example

22. Challenges

23. Frame Slotted ALOHA

24. RFID Communication

25. RFID Collision Constellation

26. RFID Practical Measurements

27. Decoding Collided Slots Reduces Delay

28. Projects: SDR RFID Reader

29. An IoT Framework for Smart Energy Management

30. System Architecture

31. System Block diagram

32. Coexistence of IEEE 802.15.4 & WLAN
Many IEEE systems will be deployed indoors widely populated by WLAN Networks
12 out of 16 IEEE Channels subject to WiFi interference
WiFi Ch. 1
WiFi Ch. 6
WiFi Ch. 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

33. Coexistence of IEEE 802.15.4 & WLAN
CSMA/CA based MAC Protocols
Coexistence Modes:
Symmetric
Asymmetric

34. Beaconed Mode IEEE 802.15.4 CSMA/CA
Data Packet from
Upper Layer
NB=0, CW=2,
BE =macMinBE
Delay for Random
(2BE-1) Slots
Perform CCA
(1st or 2nd )
CCA
Success?
CW=2, NB=NB+1,
BE =min(BE+1,macMaxBE)
CW=CW-1
NB> maxNB?
CW=0?
Packet Discard
Packet Transmission

35. Beaconed Mode IEEE 802.15.4 CSMA/CA
Tslot

36. Tolerable Collision Percentage
Collision Modeling
Collision Interference
Interleaving
Tolerable Collision Percentage

37. Project: Simulation Model for IEEE 802. 15
Project: Simulation Model for IEEE under External Interference

38. Frequency Hopping

39. Test bed Frequency Hopping: Micaz