Educational guide 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Máster Universitario en Ingeniería de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Introduction	Definitions and basic concepts Communicaction systems Radio systems. Antennas. Radioelectric spectrum. Modulation. Radio channel. Propagation channel.
Description of the radio channel	Free space Undistorted transmission Attenuation. Multipath Fading. Doppler spread. Delay spread. Frequency selective channels. Precursors.
Mathematical characterization	Narrowband Statistical amplitude distributions Doppler spectrum Wideband Bello formulation
Channel sounders	Narrowband Doppler. Nyquist limit. Wideband. Frequency domain sounders: VNA Time domain sounders. RF pulse. Sliding correlation sounders. Sounder design and performance assesment. Narrowband sounder with spectrum analyzer 0 span. VNA based sounder. Sliding correlation sounder.
Channel sounders lab	Building a wideband sounder to measure the radio channel.
Wideband modulations	Delay spread. Inter symbol interference. Irreducible BER. Frequency hopping: GSM OFDM. Guard interval. Pilot tones. Equalization. PAPR. Amplifiers. DVB-T. 4G. CDMA. Processing gain. Noise. Adquisition and tracking. RAKE receiver. 3G. Power control. Cellular breathing.
UWB systems	1. Definition. Specificities. Regulation 2. Channel characteristics. 3. Impulse radio UWB. 4. Multiband OFDM approach to UWB. 5. Applications
Wideband and UWB antenna design	1. Wideband antennas. Definition and requirements. 2. Characterization of wideband antennas 3. Examples and applications. 4. UWB antennas. Definition and requirements. 5. Characterization of UWB antennas 6. Examples and applications.
UWB applications	Radar Ground penetrating radar Positioning and location Medical imaging Emerging applications