The University's academic honesty policy will be enforced. You may assist your fellow students with general concepts, pointers to resources and useful tools or commands that are publicly available. You may not become involved in any way in helping a fellow student to find the solution to their particular task, nor may you share with them any aspect of the solution of your particular task. If you decide to develop or modify a tool (including software tools, procedures or methods) to assist you in solving your programming task, you may not provide that tool to your fellow students, nor may you publish it.

Each assessment task must be the sole work of the student turning it in. Any cheating will be handled under the University's Academic Honesty Policy.

Requirements to Pass this Unit

To pass this unit you must:achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%.

Late Assessment Submission Penalty 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7^th day (including weekends). After the 7^th day, a grade of '0' will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern.

For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration.

Assessments where Late Submissions will be accepted 

In this unit, late submissions will be accepted as follows: 

• Workshop tasks – NO, unless Special Consideration is granted 
• Quizzes – NO, unless Special Consideration is granted
• Assignments – YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 

Special Consideration

If you experience serious and unavoidable difficulties that affect your ability to meet the due dates for progress or the closing date of an assessment task, you may apply for special consideration as explained at https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration. If the request is accepted, the action may be to grant an extension of the relevant due date(s), or it may be to require you to submit an alternative assessment item. 

If you apply for special consideration, please note:

• Apply promptly. Late applications may make it impossible to sensibly offer an extension, and you may risk having to complete a different assessment task which would mean starting from scratch. For example, if you are ill for two days just before the due date, an extension of two days would be reasonable, but that extension cannot be granted more than two days after the due date since the extension end date would have already passed!

• Email the convenor (young.lee@mq.edu.au) and unit lecturer to let us know what is happening. This will make it easier for us to respond in a timely manner

Classes

Each week you should attend a two-hour online lecture and a two-hour in-person tutorial. Lectures are a core learning experience where we will discuss the theoretical underpinnings and concepts that are essential to this unit. Key ideas for assessment tasks will be discussed from time to time in lectures. Lecture recordings shall be provided in iLearn.

Tutorials provide an opportunity for you to ensure your understanding of the key concepts of the unit and develop skills to apply these concepts to practical mobile communications systems and services. 

iLearn Web Site

All learning materials will be published on iLearn including lecture slides and assessment details.

You are required to check the iLearn website at least once a week to ensure that you are aware of the latest materials available there.

Unit Forum

A forum for unit discussions is provided on iLearn. Students are free to post questions, comments or hints in relation to any aspect of the unit, except that you should avoid posting any questions, hints, comments or solutions that could be interpreted as cheating.

Textbooks

1. Cory Beard and William Stallings, "Wireless Communication Networks and Systems"; Pearson, 2015, ISBN-13: 978-0133594171
2. A.J. Goldsmith, Wireless Communications, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2005
3. Syed S. Husain et al., “End-to-End Mobile Communications: Evolution to 5G”; 2021 McGraw Hill, ISBN-13: 978-1260460254

Methods of Communication

We will communicate with you via your university email or through announcements on iLearn. Queries to the teaching staff members including the unit convenor can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to corresponding email addresses from your university email address.

COVID Information

For the latest information on the University’s response to COVID-19, please refer to the Coronavirus infection page on the Macquarie website: https://www.mq.edu.au/about/coronavirus-faqs. Remember to check this page regularly in case the information and requirements change during semester. If there are any changes to this unit in relation to COVID, these will be communicated via iLearn.

The detailed unit schedule will be available on iLearn. The unit is organised into three main wireless/mobile communications modules, with topics approximately as follows.

Weeks 1-4: Foundational wireless/mobile communications concepts, such as wireless transmission and medium access control,

Weeks 5-7: Wireless LAN,

Week 8: No class (ANZAC Day),

Weeks 9-11: Mobile/Cellure Networks,

and

Week 12: emerging technologies and applications

Week 13: Review