Essam Sourour

Dr. Essam Sourour, Professor

Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, 21544

email: [email protected] & [email protected]

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RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION

Course Contents

Text Book: Lecture notes

  • Free space propagation
  • Fresnel zones
  • Components of radio waves (reflection, refraction, scattering)
  • Anomalous effects (weather, attenuation)
  • Propagation models (ITU, Okumura/Hata) and path-loss prediction
  • Indoor propagation models
  • Fading channels in cellular systems (Rayleigh, Ricean, log-normal)
  • Fading channels counter-measures (Diversity and MIMO)