Teaching Telecommunication Standards: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Teaching Telecommunication Standards: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
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电信标准教学：弥合理论与实践之间的差距
DOI：
10.1109/mcom.2017.1601231
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
11.2
通讯作者：
Ismael Gómez Miguelez
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作者：
A. Gelonch;V. Marojevic;Ismael Gómez Miguelez
电信标准已成为加强行业和研究机构之间合作以加速通信系统演进的可靠机制。需要制定标准来促进合作并促进竞争。在标准框架内，参与标准化过程的公司贡献并商定适当的技术规范，以确保多样性和兼容性，并促进全球商业部署和发展。系统中那些能够创造竞争优势的部分有意在规范中保留开放。此类规范广泛、复杂且简约。这使得电信标准教育成为一项艰巨的任务，但行业和政府对刺激经济增长的需求很大。本文介绍了一种无线通信标准教学方法。我们围绕六个学习阶段定义了我们的方法，这些阶段吸收了标准化流程并确定了每个阶段的关键学习目标。在软件定义无线电技术的支持下，我们描述了一个实用的学习环境，有助于开发许多所需的技术和软技能，而不会产生与射频组件和监管相关的固有困难和成本。仅使用开源软件和商用现成计算机，该环境是便携式的，可以轻松地在其他教育机构重新创建并适应其教育需求和限制。我们讨论了我们和我们的学生在巴塞罗那理工学院采用拟议方法进行 4G LTE 标准教育时的经验。
Telecommunication standards have become a reliable mechanism to strengthen collaboration between industry and research institutions to accelerate the evolution of communications systems. Standards are needed to enable cooperation while promoting competition. Within the framework of a standard, the companies involved in the standardization process contribute and agree on appropriate technical specifications to ensure diversity and compatibility, and facilitate worldwide commercial deployment and evolution. Those parts of the system that can create competitive advantages are intentionally left open in the specifications. Such specifications are extensive, complex, and minimalistic. This makes telecommunication standards education a difficult endeavor, but it is much demanded by industry and governments to spur economic growth. This article describes a methodology for teaching wireless communications standards. We define our methodology around six learning stages that assimilate the standardization process and identify key learning objectives for each. Enabled by software-defined radio technology, we describe a practical learning environment that facilitates developing many of the needed technical and soft skills without the inherent difficulty and cost associated with radio frequency components and regulation. Using only open source software and commercial of-the-shelf computers, this environment is portable and can easily be recreated at other educational institutions and adapted to their educational needs and constraints. We discuss our and our students' experiences when employing the proposed methodology to 4G LTE standard education at Barcelona Tech.