Guia docente 2015_16 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Máster Universitario en Enxeñaría 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.
Mathematical description	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	Buliding 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. 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
UWB radar	1. Fundamentals. 2. Applications: - Ground penetrating radar - Medical imaging
Wideband aand UWB ntennas	1. Wideband antennas. Definition and requirements. 2. Characterization of wideband antennas 3. Examples and applications. 4U WB antennas. Definition and requirements. 5. Characterization of UWB antennas 6. Examples and applications.