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Tentative Timetable

Updated: 3rd March 2005

First Week (7—12 Feb. 2005):

Monday, 7 Feb. 2005 Kastler Lecture Hall, AGH

09:00—12:00Registration and administrative matters
14:30—15:00Opening Speech : "The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics and ICT for Development"
K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP, Italy)
15:00—15:30"Eight years of Schools in Radiocommunications and Networking at ICTP" (PDF 1.4 MB)
S.M.Radicella (ICTP-ARPL, Italy)
15:30—16:00break
16:00—16:30"The role of radiocommunications for development" (PDF 706 KB)
R.Struzak (ITU, Switzerland, ret.)
16:30—17:00"The activities of ITU-BDT for wireless communications in Developing Countries" (PDF 2.7 MB)
R.Passerini (ITU-BDT, Geneva, Switzerland)
17:00—17:30"Wireless Networking in Latin America: 15 years of experience" (PDF 3 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli (ULA-EsLaRed, Venezuela)
17:30—18:00Introduction to the ICTP computer system
J.Grassberger (ICTP-SCS, Italy)

Tuesday, 8 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Open Source for Science (OS4S)" (HTML)
E.Canessa (ICTP-eJDS, Italy)
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20"Radiocommunication Channel and Digital Modulation: Basics" (PDF 1.4 MB)
R.Struzak
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—15:00"Intro to Laboratory and Security" (PDF 990 KB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro (ICTP-ARPL, Italy)
15:00—16:00"RF Measurements on Transmission Lines"
from the Handbook - Chapter 2 (PDF 2.8 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
16:00—16:30break
16:30—17:30"RF Measurements on Transmission Lines"
from the Handbook - Chapter 3 (PDF 4.7 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
17:30—18:30LAB: "RF Measurements on Transmission Lines"

Wednesday, 9 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Mobile Communications"
(lecture notes by M. Fitton, PDF 848 KB)
E. Pietrosemoli
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20"Basic Antenna Theory" (PDF 1.1 MB)
R.Struzak
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00LAB: "RF Cable Measurements"
(brief introduction to dB math: PDF 144 KB)
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "RF Cable Measurements"
(groupwork exercises: PDF, 24 KB)

Thursday, 10 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Radiopropagation basics" (PDF 1 MB)
R.Struzak
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20"Introduction to Open Source" (PDF 1.1 MB)
M.Zennaro
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00"Project Management and Preliminary Evaluation" (PDF 612 KB)
V.Pianese (ICS-UNIDO, Italy)
16:00—16:30break
16:30—17:30Visit to the ICTP Library

Friday, 11 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Introduction to GNU Linux" (PDF 312 KB)
S.Büttrich (Wire.less, Denmark)
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20"Introduction to GNU Linux"
S.Büttrich
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00LAB: "Exercises with Linux: Ubuntu Linux" (one-page Linux manual: PDF 95KB)
16:00—16:30break
16:30—19:00LAB: "Exercises with Linux and Networking"
19:00—19:30Review of the Week, Q&A

Saturday, 12 Feb. 2005

 Free Open Lab (Networking and Linux)
9:00—11:00"Networking basics" (PDF 1.2 MB)
C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
11:00—12:00"Routing and Subnetting" (HTML)
C.Fonda and M.Zennaro

Second week (14—19 Feb. 2005):

Monday, 14 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"WiFi Hardware Overview" (PDF 1.2 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli
10:00—10:20break
10:20—11:20"WiFi Hardware Overview"
E.Pietrosemoli
11:20—12:20"WiFi Hardware Overview"
E.Pietrosemoli
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00"Wifi Hardware" (PDF 404 KB)
S.Büttrich and R.Flickenger
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "AP Configuration and WLANs"
S.Büttrich and R.Flickenger

Tuesday, 15 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Introduction to electromagnetic compatibility" (PDF 1.2 MB)
R.Struzak
10:00—10:20break
10:20—11:20"Introduction to electromagnetic compatibility"
R.Struzak
11:20—11:50"Wireless networks" (PDF 1.2 MB)
C.Fonda
11:50—12:20"Workplan for the afternoon: ...leaving home" (PDF 176 KB)
S.Büttrich
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00"Antenna Measurements"
from the Handbook - Chapter 6 (PDF 6.8 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "Building an omnidirectional antenna for WiFi: Spider antenna"

Wednesday, 16 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Building an omnidirectional antenna for WiFi"
from the Handbook - Chapter 5 (PDF 50 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20LAB: "Building and testing an omnidirectional antenna for WiFi: Collinear with 4 elements"
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—15:00"Building a biquad antenna for WiFi"
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
15:00—16:00LAB: "Building and testing a biquad antenna for WiFi"
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "Building and testing a biquad antenna for WiFi"

Thursday, 17 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Wireless Security" (PDF 1.1 MB)
R.Flickenger (Metrix, USA)
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20LAB: "Wireless Security"
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—15:00"Geometry of Parabolic Reflectors" (PDF 4.2 MB)
E. Pietrosemoli
15:00—16:00"Using the biquad antenna as feeder for a parabolic dish"
from the Handbook - Chapter 5 (PDF 50 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:00LAB: Antenna measurements and testing

Friday, 18 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Introduction to Spectrum Analyzers" (PDF 1.8 MB)
W.Wendler (Rohde & Schwarz, Germany)
10:00—10:20break
10:20—10:40"Introduction to Spectrum Analyzers"
W.Wendler
10:40—11:10"Building a 'cantenna' for WiFi" (PDF 328 KB)
R.Flickenger
11:10—12:20"Transmission line fundamentals"
E.Pietrosemoli
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00LAB: "Building a 'cantenna' for WiFi"
16:00—16:30break
16:30—17:30LAB: "Testing the cantenna"
17:30—18:30Review of the Week, Q&A

Saturday, 19 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Using a USB wireless adapter as feeder for a parabolic dish" (PDF 1.9 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro
10:30—12:00Free Open Lab (Antenna Measurements)

Third week (21—26 Feb. 2005):

Monday, 21 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Powering Issues" (PDF 1 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli
10:00—10:20break
10:20—11:20"Low power wireless nodes" (PDF 500 KB)
S.Okay (Inveneo, USA)
11:20—12:20"Internet 2 way broadband satellite" (PDF 3.3 MB. Plus some Additional notes on Satellites Coverage, pdf, 584 KB)
S.Zara (Skylogic, Italy)
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00"Uploading New Firmware on a Linksys WRT54G"
S.Okay and R.Flickenger
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "Uploading New Firmware on a Linksys WRT54G"
S.Okay and R.Flickenger

Tuesday, 22 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Spectrum Management and Regulatory Issues" (PDF 1.1 MB)
R.Struzak
10:00—10:20break
10:20—10:50"The Wireless Roadshow"
(slides in PDF 120 KB and 2 pages summary in PDF 68 KB)
S.Büttrich and T.Krag (Wire.less, Denmark)
10:50—11:45"Link Budget Calculation" (PDF 1.1 MB)
E.Pietrosemoli and M.Zennaro
11:45—12:40"Software for Wireless Link Design" (PDF 1.3 MB)
E. Pietrosemoli and M.Zennaro
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00"Linux for Wireless Networking: Pebble" (PDF 64 KB)
R.Flickenger
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "Planning of the field activities with Radio Mobile"
E. Pietrosemoli and M.Zennaro

Wednesday, 23 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Site Survey and Antenna Mounting Considerations" (E.Pietrosemoli: PDF 3.1 MB; R.Flickenger: PDF 968 KB)
E. Pietrosemoli and R.Flickenger
10:00—10:20break
10:20—12:20"Introduction to VoIP" (PDF 212 KB)
S.Okay and T.Krag
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00LAB: "VoIP Hardware"
S.Okay and T.Krag
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30LAB: "VoIP Hardware"
S.Okay and T.Krag

Thursday, 24 Feb. 2005

9:00—10:00"Introduction to Mesh Networks" (PDF 96 KB)
T.Krag (Wire.less, Denmark)
10:00—10:20break
10:20—11:20LAB: "Mesh Networks"
T.Krag and R.Flickenger
11:20—12:20LAB: "Mesh Networks"
T.Krag and R.Flickenger
12:20—14:00lunch break
14:00—16:00LAB: "Mesh Networks"
16:00—16:30break
16:30—18:30"Long distance HF Links" (PDF 1.5 MB)
A.Sanchez Sala (EHAS, Spain)
18:30—19:00break
19:00—20:00"Preparation of the long-distance field activities" (PDF 240 KB)
E. Pietrosemoli, C.Fonda and M.Zennaro

Friday, 25 Feb. 2005

8:30—9:00LAB: Preparation to the External Activity (reminder: PDF 44 KB)
9:00—12:30LAB (EXTERNAL ACTIVITY): "Short-distance Radiolink: Miramare—Trieste, 7 Km"
12:30—13:30lunch break
13:30—14:00Preparation to the External Activity
14:00—19:00LAB (EXTERNAL ACTIVITY): "Long-distance Radiolink: Miramare—Grado, 25 Km"

Saturday, 26 Feb. 2005

 LAB: "Development of Mobile Applications and Free wireless communities" (PDF 1.3 MB)
C.Avendaño and J.Arboleda (Univ. of Antioquia, Colombia)

Fourth week (28 Feb.—4 Mar. 2005):


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