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Competition2009


SCORE TABLE

first week

Date GROUP ONE GROUP TWO GROUP THREE
monday, feb. 16 diary: TBD diary: TBD diary: TBD
tuesday, feb. 17 +6 points (presence at 9:00) +4 (presence at 9:00) +8 (presence at 9:00)
diary: TBD diary: TBD diary: TBD
wednesday, feb. 18 +8 points (presence) +8 points (presence) +9 points (presence)

Five Years at the ICTP

Rob Flickenger's talk on Monday 3 March, Five Years at the ICTP (HTML format)
Download file "Five Years at the ICTP.zip"

Lectures of G. Repici

All lecture notes (Word 2008 .docx) and annexes (Word 2008 .docx and Excel 2008 .xlsx format) compressed as .zip archive (288KB)

Download file "repici.zip"

Opening Lecture

by Sandro M. Radicella, ICTP ARPL

Download file "Radicella_Opening_1.pdf"

Download file "Radicella_Opening_2.pdf"

Optimization Techniques for Telecommunications

Download file "Castelli.pdf"

Lab (WSN)

Download file "exercise1.pdf"

Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks-2

Download file "Muneeb_Trieste_08_part_2.pdf"

Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks-1

Download file "Muneeb_Trieste_08_part_1.pdf"

Introduction to Solar Powering

Download file "Inveneo_ICTP_Solar_2008.pdf"

Download file "Inveneo_ICTP_Solar_2008.ppt"

Solar Powering of WiFi equipment

Download file "Solar-WiFi-Basics-BB.pdf"

Download file "Solar-WiFi-Basics-BB.ppt"

William Luther's lectures

  • Monday, february 25: "Wireless Impact on Developing Countries"
PDF format, 624KB
Download file "2008 IMPACT.pdf"
  • Wednesday, february 27: "Future of Wireless Applications"
PDF format, 344KB
Download file "2008 FUTURE.pdf"
  • Thursday, february 28: "Public Policies for Wireless Development"
PDF format, 44KB
Download file "2008 PUBLIC POLICIES.pdf"

Introduction to WiMax and 802.11n

Lecture notes form the lecture given friday, feb. 22 2008, by Ermanno Pietrosemoli.
PDF format, 1.4MB
Download file "WiMax.pdf"

challenge

Hello,

I'm writing to you on the behalf of the "Institute for Global Communications for a Better World", following our previous discussions. We would like to receive before today, 19:00 PM, your best offer for the following task:

  • - to provide a broadband Internet connection, using wireless technologies, for the three sites:
    1. the village of Puerto Villamil (Isabela)
    2. the village of Puerto Ayora (Santa Cruz)
    3. our offices at Baltra Airport (Baltra)
please note that  the Satellite Hub with Internet connection facility is provided by an other company, and it will be located at:
  • Cerro Crocker (00° 38’ 33,2” S,  90° 19’33” W 860m a.s.l.)


It is agreed that you would provide us a full description of the project, with technical details about the chosen technologies and detailed indication of the costs of equipment, experts, technicians, and including the expenses for activities like site survey, preparation, installation and testing of this communication infrastructure.

As per our regulations, to confirm the expertise of your team, we should receive a brief essay, written by each of your staff members, about  the topic "three reasons why wireless is important for the developing world" (please no more that 200 words).

We will evaluate your proposal against similar ones we requested to other companies, and we will consider financial and timing aspects for tour final decision. We will compensate adequately your effort and collaboration!

Cordially,
IGCBW

Preparation of Outdoor Activity

(PDf format, 296KB)
Download file "longlink2008.pdf"

POE and Lightning Protection

Lecture notes of the lecture "POE and Lightning Protection" given on wednesday, feb. 20 by Ermanno Pietrosemoli
(PDF format, 2.3 MB)
Download file "powering issues2008.pdf"

Wireless Security

Rob's talk from Wednesday 20 February, Wireless Security (HTML format)

Also recommended: The Code Book by Simon Singh

Download file "security.zip"

Disaster Preparedness and Telecommunications

Download file "Sehmi_Lecture2.pdf"

Weather Telecommunications and Developing Countries


Download file "Sehmi_Lecture1.pdf"

High Voltage



For an excellent lecture on lightning research, see video lecture #6 from MIT:

Mesh Networking

PDF used in the talk and lab by Sebastian Büttrich (3.4 MB)



Download file "mesh_networking_ICTP_2008_short_version.pdf"

open office version (3.5 MB)


Download file "mesh_networking_ICTP_2008_short_version.odp"