Course description
The mobile phone has been one of the most successful consumer devices with rapid uptake, reaching saturation in the most technologically advanced countries and with rapid rollout now proceeding in the remainder of the world. The future development of mobile devices includes mobile Internet, mobile TV capabilities and eventually wireless handheld devices that enable ubiquitous computing. The MSc in Mobile Communication Systems aims to give students a thorough understanding of the engineering aspects of this extremely important and rapidly developing area.
In the first semester, the programme gives a grounding in the principles of communications and packet-based networks, information representation and transmission, as well as the engineering fundamentals of mobile and personal cellular communications. This work is built on in the second semester with a number of optional modules covering areas such as RF systems and circuits, antennas and propagation, advanced signal processing, advanced cellular and other mobile communications and technologies for 3G, 4G and Wifi, image and video compression, mobile phone operating systems, and data and Internet networking. As with all the Department's MSc programmes, a project and dissertation provides an opportunity to investigate one area in much greater detail.
Programme length
12 months full-time, up to 48 months part-time
