Radio channels

Max amount of FITech students: 30

Please note the early application deadline.

Course contents

• The radio channels of different radio systems.
• Characterization of radio waves and propagation media.
• Different mechanisms of radio wave propagation: direct free-space propagation, absorption, scattering, reflection, refraction, diffraction, surface and ground waves, ionospheric waves and multipath propagation.
• Statistical description of fading radio channel.
• Principles of the radio channel modelling.
• Noise calculations.
• Radio wave propagation phenomena over fixed terrestrial, ionospheric and satellite links.
• Radio channel modelling for outdoor mobile systems.
• Radio wave propagation inside or into buildings.
• Radio channels of mobile satellite links.
• Slow fading.
• Multipath propagation and its effects on narrowband and wideband radio channels.
• MIMO radio channels.
• Measurement methods of radio channels.
• Atmospheric attenuation on terahertz frequency bands.

After completing the course, the student

• will be able to define what the radio channel is and is able to distinguish it into modellable parts,
• knows different radio wave propagation mechanisms,
• can apply physical and empirical radio channel models,
• is able to analyse which are the dominating propagation mechanisms in different environments, and
• will know how to measure the properties of different radio channels.

Course material

• Lecture notes.
• Additional reading:
• Andreas Molisch. “Wireless Communications”, 2012. Wireless Communications. Wiley-IEEE Press.
• Simon R. Saunders & Alejandro Aragón-Zavala: Antennas and propagation for wireless communication systems. Second edition. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007.

Recorded lectures and exercises from previous year are available.

More information on the University of Oulu course page.

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