Radio and Satellite Communications

Course title: Radio and Satellite Communications

Code: 3ФЕИТ10З029

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Тhe students will be enriched with knowledge for planing and projecting of fixed wireless systems and implementation of standards for quality.  Moreover, the students will be enriched with knowledge for advanced satellite communications and services.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Historical development. Components of the radio link. Frequency bands. Radio Channel model. Propagation models for indoor and outdoor. Calculations of quality of transmission. Comparison of the norms from the ITU recommendations. Diversity, types of diversity techniques, combiners. Digital modulations in wireless systems. Calucaltions of error probability in presence of noise and fading. Impact of the radio wave propagations in the quality of transmission. Designing fixed wireless point-to-point systems.  Example of fixed wireless point-to-point systems project. Designing point to multiple points system (local access systems: WLL - wireless local loop). Satellite communications. Satellite links. Power and loss calculations. Systems with multiple access (FDMA, TDMA, Aloha, CDMA). VSAT systems. Mobile satellite services (GEO and non-GEO). Global Positioning System - GPS. Satellite and cellular system integration.

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