- Spectrum management
- English
- Martin Mwaura
- Jonathan Mwakijele
- Anita Natwati
Advanced
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- Credit card
- M-pesa
Event organizer(s)
Description
This course covers the concepts of opportunistic spectrum access in its different variants (overlay and underlay), identify spectrum sensing techniques and different approaches used to exploit White spaces, and learn the current regulations about Cognitive Radio and White Spaces.
This training is targeted to those entering the regulatory environment or interacting with technologies as operators, developers, or managers. It is targeted at those aiming to understand the evolution of Spectrum management and the various emerging technologies that will assist in improving efficiencies, with a view to developing a general overview of trends.
This may include professionals working in the telecommunications industry like technical engineers/technicians, lawyers, and regulatory staff across all departments.
As a prerequisite, the audience in this course is expected to be familiar with spectrum management.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the basic principles of the cognitive radio
- Describe the spectrum sensing techniques
- Describe the White spaces concepts and regulation
- Analyse the concept of cognitive radio systems
- Analyse the mechanisms that support Dynamic spectrum access.
- Assess the interference limits for secondary usage
- Assess the probability of detection in a simulated scenario
- Instructor-Led online learning, training material will be shared every week. Learners can reach out to the instructors on the ITUAcademy platform.
- The participants will be expected to go through the study material and the provided references.
- Live lectures and discussions will be held on ZOOM every Tuesday and Thursday from 1500 Hours to 1700 Hours EAT (GMT+3)
Participation in all 4 Forums 20%
Quiz 1 10%
Quiz 2 10%
Quiz 3 10%
Quiz 4 10%
End of course assignment 40%
A total score of 70% or higher is required to obtain the ITU certificate
WEEK 1
Module-1: Introduction - Radio Spectrum Utilization
- Spectrum Scarcity
- Spectrum management models
- Approaches to share spectrum,
- Spectrum occupancy and measurement
- Introduction to cognitive radio
Module-2: Introduction to the Software defined radio
- Introduction to Software defined radio (SDR),
- Levels & tiers of SDR, SDR models and examples
Learning Outcomes
Describe the concept of Cognitive Radio
Activities
Live Lecture through ZOOM: Tuesday and Thursday from 1500 Hours to 1700 Hours EAT (GMT+3).
Forum discussion 1: What factors influence the efficiency of Spectrum usage?
Quiz 1: Friday
WEEK 2
Module-3: Dynamic Spectrum Access and Cognitive radio
- Shared Access
- Dynamic Access
- Cognitive Radio-Components and functions, Regulatory issues for cognitive access
- Reframing
Module 4: Spectrum Sensing and Interference Temperature
- Signal detection
- Cooperative & Non-Cooperative sensing
- Interference based testing
- Interference temperature
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the Mechanisms of Dynamic Spectrum Access and cognitive radio systems
- Analyze the spectrum sensing techniques
Activities
Live Lecture through ZOOM: Tuesday and Thursday from 1500 Hours to 1700 Hours EAT (GMT+3).
Forum discussion 2: Technology changes (advancement) and Regulation.
How are they inter-related?
Quiz 2: Friday
WEEK 3
Module 5: Dynamic Spectrum Access Models
- Shared Spectrum use & management Models,
- The secondary Market
- Dynamic Spectrum Access Architecture,
Module 6: Spectrum Overlay, Underlay and Commons model
- Spectrum Overlay
- Underlay and Commons model
- EM 2-4 submodule 7-Game Theory
- Game Theory
- The Nash Equilibrium
Learning Outcomes
Analyze the Mechanisms of Dynamic Spectrum Access
Activities
Live Lecture through ZOOM: Tuesday and Thursday from 1500 Hours to 1700 Hours EAT (GMT+3).
Forum discussion 3: To what extent does consumer behavior affect the evolution of technology?
Quiz 3: Friday
WEEK 4
Module 8-White Spaces and regulation
- Identification and detection of WS
- Occupation Database-its structure & administration,
- Regulation of WS
- WS devices
Module 9-Regulatory approaches to Dynamic Spectrum Allocation
- Regulatory Issues for Cognitive Access,
- Geographic databases,
- ASA & LSA,
- Spectrum allocation recommendations
Module 10-Technologies using White Spaces
- Examples of technologies using white spaces
Learning Outcomes
Analyze the White Spaces concepts and regulation
Activities
Live Lecture through ZOOM: Tuesday and Thursday from 1500 Hours to 1700 Hours EAT (GMT+3).
Forum discussion 4: Spectrum sharing- should all public use spectrum be available for sharing?
Quiz 4 & End of course assignment submission: Friday
Registration information
Unless specified otherwise, all 麻豆社视频 training courses are open to all interested professionals, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, economic status and other diverse backgrounds. We strongly encourage registrations from female participants, and participants from developing countries. This includes least developed countries, small island developing states and landlocked developing countries.