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Third Week Schedule and Lecture Notes:
Monday February 23th - Friday February 27th

Our schedule will follow the framework listed below for your convenience. More details will be posted as they become available.


Monday, February 23

9:00-10:00
"Power budget Calculation"
M. Zennaro and C.Fonda (ICTP Trieste Italy)
reference documentation (HTML)

10:00-10:20
Coffee Break

10:20-12:20
"Software for Wireless Link Design"
E. Pietrosemoli, EsLaRed (Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
lecture notes (PDF, 1.3MB)

12:20-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
LAB: "Exercises with the 'Radio Mobile' Software"
G. J. Diaz Toro, A. J. Gonzalez Zambrano, M. Jerez (EsLaRed and Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
download the software (HTML and ZIP files)

16:00-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-19:30
LAB: "Building a 'Pringles cantenna' for WiFi"
R. Flickenger (Seattle Wireless, Seattle, USA)
lecture notes (HTML)


Tuesday, February 24

9:00-10:00
"Site Survey and Antenna Mounting Considerations"
E. Pietrosemoli, EsLaRed (Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
lecture notes (PDF, 880KB)

10:00-10:20
Coffee Break

10:20-11:20
"Grounding and Lightning Protection"
E. Pietrosemoli, EsLaRed (Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
lecture notes (PDF, 1.8MB)

11:20-12:20
"Voice over IP in Wireless Networks"
E. Pietrosemoli, EsLaRed (Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela)
lecture notes (PDF, 508KB)

12:20-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:00
LAB: "Planning of the long-distance radiolink GGH-Muggia"
look at the maps and sites coordinates

15:00-16:00
LAB: "Indoor antenna measurements: SWR, antenna gain and frequency response"
see the Handbook at Chapter 6(PDF, 6.5MB)

16:00-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-19:30
LAB: "On-the-field antenna measurements: radiation pattern"
see the Handbook at Chapter 6(PDF, 6.5MB) and use the empty Polar Plot Graph.


Wednesday, February 25

9:00-9:30
"Preparation of the on-the-field activities"

9:30-12:30
EXTERNAL ACTIVITY: "Short-distance Radiolink: Miramare-Trieste (San Giusto), 7 Km"

12:30-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-18:00
EXTERNAL ACTIVITY: "Long-distance Radiolink: Miramare-Muggia (Muggia Vecchia), 14 Km"
Report of measurements prepared by Huda El Hag and Hina Rubab (HTML).


Thursday, February 26

9:00-10:00
"Planning Intranet-Extranet: General Approach-Preparing and Implementing"
G. Repici (Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy)
lecture notes (PDF, 152KB) and (DOC, 96KB)

10:00-10:20
Coffee Break

10:20-12:20
"Implementing Intranet-Extranet: Estimate of Cost and Feasibility Check"
G. Repici (Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy)
lecture notes (PDF, 152KB) and (DOC, 88KB)
Case Study: (PDF, 140KB) and (DOC, 108KB)
annexes: annexA1A2 (XLS), annexB1 (XLS), annexB2 (XLS) and annexB3 (XLS)

12:20-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-16:00
"Wireless Security"
R. Flickenger (Seattle Wireless, Seattle, USA)
lecture notes (HTML)

16:00-16:30
Coffee Break

16:30-17:30
"The ICTP eJournals Delivery Service and other ICT initiatives at ICTP"
H. Cerdeira, E. Canessa (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
lecture notes (PDF, 12.7MB) and movie (QuickTime MOV, 28.5MB)

17:30-19:30
ARPL Competition for the "best tuned" team of the Laboratory 2004


Friday, February 27

9:00-10:00
"Broadband wireless access solutions as platform to bridge the digital divide: a real life experience from Africa"
E. Ekuwem (Teledom International, Lagos, Nigeria)

10:00-10:20
Coffee Break

10:20-11:20
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION, Results of the Questionnaire, Final Review of the Group Activities, Results of the ARPL Competition

11:20-12:20
CLOSING CEREMONY and SCHOOL CERTIFICATES

Contact us for more info:

Ms. Koutou Mabilo (secretariat)