Communication & Radio Access Networks

This course will introduce wireless networks from a technical perspective, including the background of wireless standards, and the evolution to 5G and beyond.

You will learn the theory underpinning radio transmission and reception, and appreciate the need for standards and protocols for accessing the RF spectrum, which forms the channel in wireless communications systems.

You will also gain practical knowledge of designing Radio Access Networks (RANs), including technical, economic, and regulatory factors, and gain an appreciation of candidate use-cases served by private and public networks.

The course will provide a firm technical grounding in wireless communications systems. It aims to ‘demystify’ how radio communications work and explain some of the terminology around this topic, so that you will feel confident evaluating and discussing radio communications systems.