ICTP - URSI SCHOOL ON DIGITAL AND MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS USING TERRESTRIAL AND SATELLITE RADIO LINKS 12th February - 2nd March 2001 , Trieste (Italy)
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	Introduction to Radio Technologies for Data Communications C. Fonda, ICTP - ARPL, Trieste Italy cfonda@ictp.trieste.it

• This isn't intended to be a lecture, but an interactive talk about the use of wireless for LAN (and also many other purposes).
• Radio is an "old" technology, but recent development has "spread" a lot his usefulness, now radio can be used with big profit in many new environments.
• Radio is a strong competitor of cable/fiber technology in telecom market, even more in datacomm.
• Overview of radio technologies:
  • narrow band radio (HF, VHF, UHF) : packet radio
  • microwaves : the standard digital carrier for telecom/datacom
  • spread spectrum radio : a new concept of LAN
• Please let me know your interest, we will not cover all aspects of radio datacom, but hopefully we will "touch" at least the interesting/needed ones...
  • (The results of my survey about interesting topics for participants are here!)
• Our "simulated real-life activity" is the planning, development and maintenance of a campus LAN, briefly our Wireless LAN Project

updated 19 February 2001, © 2001 ICTP-ARPL, HTML by cfonda