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Terrestrial and Satellite-based Radio Systems (Lectures & Small Projects)

Rolf Jakoby, Margarita Puentes, Mara Roig Parras Cycle: SS, (3+1); Exams: oral

Guidelines of this lecture: This lecture will be given in English. Copies of the slides presented during this lecture as well as a written script, including most of the lectures topics, will be available on our web pages http://www.hf.e-technik.tu-darmstadt.de/de/teaching/veranstaltung.php?lehre_id=12. The aim of this lecture is to give some physical fundamentals, an overview and most important strategies, techniques and components of wireless systems, including RFID, satellite and terrestrial radio systems. Beside gaining some theoretical knowledge of wireless methodology and techniques, an important point is of this lecture is to link the different parts in order to be able to decide which of the strategies, techniques or technologies are best suited for a specific application in practice, taking into account various aspects such as propagation, building blocking, the operating frequency, band limitations, non-linear effects, esthetic aspects, and so on. Instead of exercises in addition to the lectures, any student has to carry out an applicationoriented small project in groups of three students. The way of how you solve the problems and get the results has to be presented by the complete group within 20 minutes per group and, in addition, a small written report of 4 to 6 pages has to be hand over. Both will be taken into account as a part of the exams at the end of this lecture. The lecture is structured into four parts: Part 1: Antennas, Wireless System Design, Passive Sensing, Satellite-based Radio Systems and Chipless RFID (Jakoby) Part 2: The Mobile Radio Channel (Puentes) Part 3: Terrestrial Mobile Communication Systems (Roig-Parras) Part 4: Projects and Presentations (Puentes, Roig-Parras) 0 Introduction of Wireless Systems (slides) 1 Antennas for Wireless Systems 1.1 Antenna Fundamentals and Basic Parameters 1.2 Dipole Antennas 1.2.1 Ideal dipole with uniform current distribution 1.2.2 Crossed-dipole antenna 1.3 Effective Aperture of Antennas 1.4 Aperture Antennas 1.4.1 Area coverage (footprint) 1.4.2 Multibeam, multimode antennas 1.4.3 Cross-polarisation of a reflector antenna 1.5 Phased-Array Antennas

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2 Wireless System Design 2.1 Power Link Budgets (One-Way Links) 2.1.1 Friis transmission equation 2.1.2 Gain and effective aperture of antennas 2.1.3 Examples of wireless link budgets: Downlink of a Direct Broadcasting Satellite (DBS) at 12 GHz GSM downlink at 900 MHz 2.2 Path Losses and Propagation Effects in Wireless Links 2.2.1 Transceiver losses (feeder losses, imperfect alignment of the antennas, polarization mismatch) 2.2.2 Attenuation and depolarization due to atmospheric propagation effects
(gaseous, fog and rain attenuation, depolarization, atmospheric propagation model)

2.2.3 Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) path losses and propagation effects Examples: Adjacent-channel and co-channel interference in cellular networks Multi-frequency network (MFN) 2.3 Receiver: Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a System 2.3.1 System noise temperature and signal-to-noise ratio Appendix A2.1: Channel Coding and Interleaving Appendix A2.2: SNR requirements in communication systems 2.3.2 Antenna-noise temperature 2.3.3 Passive remote sensing applications 2.4 Transmitter: Linearity and Dynamic Range (might be embedded into Chapter 5) 2.4.1 Transmitter noise 2.4.2 High-power amplifiers 2.4.3 Dynamic range of a system 2.4.4 Intermodulation distortion in frequency multiplexing systems (IP3-measurements) 3 The Mobile Radio Channel 3.1 Large-Scale Propagation Models 3.1.1 Basic NLOS propagation effects: Penetration, Reflection, Scattering, Diffraction 3.1.2 Two-ray model and Doppler effect 3.1.3 Practical link budget design using path loss models Log-distance path loss model Log-normal shadowing Percentage of coverage area 3.1.4 Outdoor propagation models Okumura model Hata model 3.1.5 Ray tracing and site-specific modeling 3.2 Small-Scale Fading and Multipath 3.2.1 Multipath propagation model 3.2.2 Impulse response model of a multipath channel 3.2.3 Small-scale fading 3.2.4 Rayleigh and Ricean distributions 3.2.5 Statistical models for multipath fading channels Two-rays Rayleigh fading model Flat fading model, WSSUS, ...

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4 Radar and Chipless RFID 4.1 Backscatter Principle and Radar Equation (Two-Way Links) 4.2 Chipless RFID for Temperature Sensing 5 Satellite Systems (DVB-S) 5.1 Overview of Fixed and Mobile Satellite Systems 5.2 Frequency Bands, Polarization and Positions of Satellite Systems 5.3 Telecommunication and Broadcasting Satellites 5.4. Satellites for Mobile Communications and Navigation 5.5 Earth Segments of a Satellite System (PowerPoint Slides) 5.5.1 Direct-broadcasting receiving system 5.5.2 Mobile satellite systems 5.5.3 Earth stations 5.6 Space Segments of Satellite Systems (Transponder Model) 5.6.1 Spacecraft modules 5.6.2 Communication subsystem 5.6.3 Transponder Transmitter, High Power Amplifiers: Linearity and Dynamic Range 5.7 Design of Up- and Downlink 5.8 Towards Intelligent Satellite Systems (Regenerative Transponder and Multi-beam Antennas) 6 Terrestrial mobile communication systems Fundamentals of modulation schemes such as MSK, GMSK, M-PSK, Impact of non-linearity on modulation: QPSK vs. GMSK 6.1 Terminal-, personal, service and session mobility 6.2 Network planning for cellular networks 6.3 Network architecture (overview): GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WLAN 802.11, OSI/ISO model 6.4 Network procedures concerning mobility: Location Update, Handover, Roaming 6.5 Security aspects: Authentication, Key agreement Literature Ohmori, S. u.a.: Mobile Satellite Communications, Artech House, 1998. Feher, K.: Wireless Digital Communications, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995. Feher, K.: Digital Communications, Noble Publishing Corp., 1997. Feher, K.: Advanced Digital Communications, Noble Publishing Corp., 1997. Rappaport, Th. S.: Wireless communications, Prentice Hall, 1996. Pratt, T., Bostian, Ch.: Satellite Communications, John Wiley & Sons, 1986. Spilker, J.: Digital Communications by Satellite, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977. Ziemer, R. E., Peterson, R. L.: Introduction to Digital Communication, Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001. Roddy, D.: Satellitenkommunikation, Hanser Verlag. Reimers, U.: Digitale Fernsehtechnik, 2. Aufl., Springer, 1996. Kammeyer, K.D.: Nachrichtenbertragung, 2. Aufl., B.G. Teubner, 1996. Dodel, H. etc.: Handbuch der Satelliten Direktempfangstechnik, Hthig, 1991.

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