- Jonathan Mwakijele
- Annitah Rodah Natwati
- Palesa Legoze
- Anne Rita Ssemboga
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Description
This course covers spectrum engineering foundations for students to be able to perform link budget calculations, interference analysis, and provide an understanding of 3D propagation modelling for radio communications services frequency planning. This is intended to support modern spectrum management.
Target population
This training is targeted at those who are entering the regulatory environment and are interacting with technologies as operators, developers, or managers. It is targeted at those aiming to understand the workings of various technologies to develop a general overview of trends.
This may include professionals working in the telecommunications industry, lawyers, and regulatory staff across all departments.
Besides that, other institutions and individuals who are dedicated to building their capacity related to new technologies are welcome to participate.
Kindly note this course is restricted to users who meet the following criterial:
Entry requirements
Participants are expected to have basic knowledge in Spectrum Management. Participants are also expected to be working for a regulator, or in the ICT/Telecoms sector as a provider or consultant.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the essential technical foundations on radio wave propagation phenomena and behavior.
- Perform link budget calculations and interference analysis.
- Analyze the spectrum space occupied by radiocommunications systems.
- Evaluate spectrum usage efficiency.
- Identify the main characteristics of most used modulation schemes.
- Explain the historical perspective of radio spectrum usage, its evolution, and the behavior of radio waves to support planning, assigning, and controlling different service emission parameters for optimum radio spectrum exploitation.
Methodology
- Instructor-led online learning with presentations, case studies, exercises, and assignments.
- Live lectures and discussions through ZOOM every Monday and Wednesday from 1500 Hours to 1700 Hours EAT (GMT+3).
Assessment and grading
The evaluation is based on:
• Participation in all 4 Forums (12%)
• Assignment 1 (10%)
• Assignment 2 (10%)
• Assignment 3 (10%)
• Assignment 4 (10%)
• Assignment 5 (10%)
• Assignment 6 (10%)
• End of Course Assignment (28%)
• Total (100%)
A total score higher than 70% is required to obtain the ITU certificate.
Certificate of completion
Upon completion, you will receive an ITU Academy certificate confirming that you have met the course requirements and achieved the learning outcomes.
Training details and instructional approach
WEEK 1
- The Radio Spectrum
- The radio spectrum characteristics
- Telecommunications Units
- Modelling the three-dimensional space using the sphere
Learning outcomes:
Be able to describe the essential technical foundations on radio wave propagation phenomena and behavior.
Activities:
- Live lecture & discussion 1: Monday and Wednesday.
- Forum topic 1: Is Spectrum a limited resource? Do you see the glass as half full or half empty?
- Read Week 1-course materials
- Assignment 1: Wednesday
- Assignment 2: Friday
WEEK 2
- Basic antenna parameters: Radiation patterns, beam efficiency, driving impedance, antenna operation bandwidth, directivity and gain, directivity and resolution, and apertures.
- Modelling the antenna
- Polarization, antenna isolation, and frequency reuse
Learning outcomes:
Be able to explain the historical perspective of radio spectrum usage, its evolution, and the behavior of radio waves to support planning, assigning, and controlling different services emission parameters for optimum radio spectrum exploitation.
Activities:
- Live lecture & discussion 2: Monday and Wednesday.
- Forum topic 2: How essential is an understanding of propagation models for the deployment of communications?
- Read week 2-course materials
- Assignment 3: Wednesday
- Assignment 4: Friday
WEEK 3
- General concepts on radio communications
- ITU-R recommendations
- Medium and high-resolution digital cartography, DTM, DCM, clutters, coordinates, datum.
- Amplitude modulation, frequency modulation, digital modulation schemes, spread spectrum, and OFDM
Learning outcomes:
Be able to analyze the spectrum space occupied by radiocommunications systems.
Activities:
- Live lecture & discussion 3: Monday and Wednesday.
- Forum topic 3: Discuss the feasibility of Digital Radio migration in your territory.
- Read week 3-course material
- Assignment 5: Wednesday
- Assignment 6: Friday
WEEK 4
- Interference, C/I and I/N
- Broadcasting services network design and coverage analysis
- Cross-border frequency coordination principles and international agreements
- EMF human exposure limits, calculation, and evaluation of exposure to non-ionizing radiation
Learning outcomes:
Be able to perform link budget calculations and interference analysis.
Activities:
- Live lecture & discussion 4: Monday and Wednesday.
- Forum topic 4: EM Exposure. To what extent is this an area of enforcement as a regulator?
- Read week 4 course materials
- End of Course Assignment: Friday
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Registration information
Unless specified otherwise, all ITU Academy training courses are open to all interested professionals, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, economic status and other diverse backgrounds. We strongly encourage registrations from female participants, and participants from developing countries. This includes least developed countries, small island developing states and landlocked developing countries.
