Guia docente 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. RADIATION FUNDAMENTALS (theoretical-practical)	1.1 Electromagnetic Fundamentals 1.2 Antenna parameters in transmission 1.3 Antenna parameters in reception 1.4 Types of antennas
2. LINK BUDGET (theoretical-practical)	2.1 Friis transmission equation 2.2 Propagation losses. 2.3 Band frequencies.
3. NOISE (theoretical-practical)	3.1 Thermal noise. 3.2 Noise in antennas. 3.3 Noise factor and noise-equivalent temperature of a receiver.
4. INTERFERENCE (theoretical-practical)	4.1 Concept and types of interference 4.2 Characterization of interference
5. AVAILABILITY (theoretical-practical)	5.1 Concepts of availability, fading and diversity 5.2 Noise-limited Systems 5.3 Interference-limited Systems
6. RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION (theoretical-practical)	6.1 Propagation at very low frequencies 6.2 Surface wave propagation 6.3 Ionospheric propagation 6.4 Tropospheric Propagation
0. MEASUREMENTS (practical)	0.1 Introduction 0.2 Measurements with the field meter 0.3 Measurements with the spectrum analyzer