Kalender

• Course information


• History of radio communication


• The frequency spectrum and its applications

Exercise problems about probability and stochastic processes.

• Introduction to radiowave propagation


• Modeling of free space propagation


• Modeling of plane earth propagation


• Propagation in the atmosphere


• Propagation in the ionesphere

Problems 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

• Propagation modelling


• Free space path loss model


• Plane earth path loss model


• Macrocell models


• Microcell models


• Indoor models


• Summary

Problems 2.5, 2.6, 2.11

• Representation of radio communication signals


• Equivalent lowpass representation of radio communication signals


• Antenna systesms


• Linear antennas


• Directional (aperture type) antennas


• Summary

Problems 3.1, 3.2, 3.16, 3.17

• Types of communication channels


• Characterization and modeling of time-invariant channels


• Characterization of fading multipath channels


• Long-term fading modeling

• Radio communication system performance


• Thermal noise modelling


• Link budget calculations


• Outage probability & time availability


• Fade margin


• Link budget calculations in the presence of fading

• Principle of diversity and its objective


• Diversity methods


• Combining methods for diversity and their performance


• Limitations of diversity