5G Mobile Communications, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

COMM.SYS.700

Language of learning

English

Academic years

2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027

Level of study

Intermediate studies

Grading scale

Pass-Fail

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Mikko Valkama

Responsible teacher:

Joonas Säe

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Electrical Engineering Studies 100 %

Content

Core content

3GPP standard development
* Release 15
* on-going developments and future targets and visions
5G core enabling technologies
* flexible physical layer: CP-OFDM with mixed numerology options
* spectrally enhanced CP-OFDM
* mm-wave communications
* massive MIMO and beamforming
* advanced duplexing solutions including full-duplex
* network densification and ultra-dense networks
5G New Radio (5G-NR) radio interface
5G NR Architecture
5G requirements and use cases
* 5G applications/verticals
* available spectrum
* peak data rates, area capacity, latency, reliability, mobility support
* enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB)
* massive MTC, internet of things (IoT)
* ultra reliable low-latency communications (URLLC)
Beyond 5G
* Release 16, Release 17, 5G-Advanced
* Pre-6G

Learning outcomes

Prerequisites

Compulsory prerequisites

Further information

Learning material

Equivalences

Studies that include this course

Completion option 1

Active participation in the lectures, weekly exercises for each lecture/topic area, and a small final project in 2-3 person groups (measurement project) OR individually made literature study and short presentation on different topic. For doctoral students, the scope of project is more advanced compared to MSc students and a short presentation together with a 3-4 page report following IEEE publications guidelines is required.

Participation in teaching

Online or distance self learning

1. Independent project (English)

11.05.2026 – 16.08.2026

Contact teaching

2. Lectures (English)

11.01.2027 – 28.02.2027

Open University completion options

The course is also available at the Open University

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