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RF Spectrum Management
RF Spectrum Management
This course deals with the most relevant issues related to the radio frequency (RF) spectrum management, including regulations at national and international levels, the geophysical fundamentals of wave propagation, the power budget equation, engineering aspects about antennas and sensors (active and passive), introduction to the services (satellite communications, radio astronomy, Earth exploration, etc.) that use the spectrum and the agencies that regulate it.
The course lasts 7 weeks (14 modules). The student is expected to devote 3-4 hours per week. This course might be offered again by another faculty, please check with UPRM DECEP.
Topics Covered
Topics Covered
- Introduction to the radio frequency (RF) spectrum management. Basic concepts and importance.
- Basic concepts of RF spectrum Management, introduction to Acronyms
- The geophysical properties that can be measured by observations of the radio spectrum.
- Introduction basic concepts of radio wave propagation as a function of frequency and other parameters, atmospheric attenuation, atmospheric windows, physical processes, and Plank’s Law
- Basic concepts of antennas
- Link Power Budget equation and examples.
- RF sensors (active and passive). Spectrum users (Services)
- Agencies that regulate the RF Spectrum and processes at international levels and regional groups (ITU, CITEL, CEPT, etc.); origin of ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
- Examples and discussion about several ITU-R Recommendations.
- Agencies that regulate the RF Spectrum and processes at national level in the U.S., NTIA, FCC, and other entities: CORF, FARS
- WRC (World Radiocommunication Conference); examples of Agenda Items (AI) and procedures. Examples from recent and upcoming WRC.
- Spectrum Manager Tasks: Examples and discussion about FCC and NTIA reports and other public documents, introduction to software tools (like EL CID, SXXI (Spectrum management in the 21st century) software) used for spectrum management.
- Spectrum challenges for passive sensors
- Spectrum challenges for satellites
- Spectrum Sharing and RFI Mitigation Techniques
- Biological Effects of RF signals
Reviews:
Reviews:
"The most I liked was that although material was presented that was more advanced (I had not taken in previous courses) the professor did an excellent job in putting it in a simple and easy to understand."
"What I liked the most was learning about the management of the radio frequency spectrum, since it is not a course that I have listened to previously and it helps in my academic training because I learn from those concepts more related to the regulations and uses of devices, bands of frequencies, etc. within the radio-frequency spectrum."
"Being a fully online course gives opportunity to enroll other courses without concern for the schedule. It gives a lot of flexibility to the time to devote to the course. It would be of great benefit for students who are of coop or boarding school that want to advance courses. I liked the dynamics of forums since it encourages the open opinion of the participants."
"It's my first online course and I really liked the dynamics and atmosphere of it."
"The most that I liked about the course was that it taught me to be more active in the search for information on topics related to Radio Frequency and at the same time to be able to see different points of view of the topics."
"Being videos, if I had doubts about a topic I could see the video again and understand the concept better. In addition, being online and doing the essay forces me to look for references that help me understand the concept and find applications in the real world with respect to the topics discussed."
"I definitely like to manage time at my own pace and be able to have the reference videos when making the discussion since in a regular class one can lose details but here we can see the video several times if we do not understand."
"It is a current issue and of great importance in the field of electrical engineering."
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Dr. Cruz-Polis a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UPRM and currently an ERC Program Director at NSF. She is a member of U.S. National Academies (NAS) Committee on Radio Frequencies (CORF). She was also an appointed member of the NAS Active Spectrum Study. She was the Program Director for the EARS (Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum) program at NSF where she was also a Spectrum Manager. She is a member of the IEEE FARS (Frequency Allocations for Remote Sensing) Technical Committee. She was appointed by NSF as member of the U.S. Delegation for Spectrum Management to the ITU in Geneva and was the NSF Representative for the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC) at the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and for several subcommittees including the one that deals with Frequency Allocations, FAS. During her stay at NSF she was selected as the Federal Liaison for the U.S. National Committee for the International Union for Radio Science (URSI). She did her PhD at Penn State, MS at UMass and BS at UPRM, all three with the Suma Cum Laude distinction.
The textbook for this course is sold on Amazon
RF Spectrum Management :An Introduction to the Radio Frequency Spectrum Management at National and International Levels
The Cost is US$600.
Next Course date: TBD.
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