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ECE 458: Applications of Radio Wave Propagation

Section	Time	Room	Instructor	Office Hours	Office
X	3:30	2017 ECEB	Erhan Kudeki	MF 4:00 PM	2080 ECEB

Teaching Assistant: Binghui Wang - bwang36@illinois.edu --- Office Hours: Wednesday 9:30AM-11AM, 3036 ECEB

Course Description: ECE 458 is a follow-on course to ECE 350 concerned with the complexities of EM wave propagation on and around our planet with a special focus on near-Earth space environment including the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and solar wind, the last three occupied by magnetized plasmas. We will assume ECE 350 level familiarity with Maxwell's equations, antenna fundamentals, and plane wave concepts, as well as familiarity with linear system theory tools (ECE 210) and random signals and thermal noise (ECE 313, ECE 350). Very broadly, the first one third of the course is focused on radiowave communications links near the ground and within the troposphere, the middle third on ionospheric propagation above 50 km altitude and sky-wave communication links, and the last third on radio remote sensing of the near Earth space environment using reflective and scattering based techniques.

Course Outline: Specified in

Course Calendar

Supplementary Course Material:

List of Vector Identities Direction Cosines EMORS Area Smith Chart Tool AARL Smith Chart Supp

ECE 329 Notes ECE 350 Notes

Lecture Notes and Reading Material:

2020 Class Notes ECE458 Folder

Zoom Lectures:

3-24-20 3-26-20 Part 1 3-26-20 Part 2 3-26-20 Part 3 - Ex 4 3-26-20 Part 4 3-31-20 4-2-20 4-7-20 4-9-20 4-14-20 4-16-20 4-21-20 4-23-20 4-28-20 4-30-20 5-5-20 5-7-20 5--12-20 5-25-20 5-27-20 5-29-20 6-1-20 6-5-20 6-21-20 6-28-20 7-12-20 7-19-20 7-30-20

Homework: Will be assigned weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) on Tuesdays and collected a week later. The assignments and their solutions will be posted below in pdf format. No late homework will be accepted (except when special permission is granted by your instructor before the due date). You can check your homework grades in Illinois Compass2g.

Homework 1 soln Homework 2 soln Homework 3 soln Homework 4 soln Homework 5 soln Homework 6 soln Take Home Exam 1 soln Homework 7 soln Homework 8 soln Homework 9 soln Homework 10 soln Homework 11 soln Take Home Final soln

Exams: Two midsemester exams and a final exam (possibly take home) will be scheduled.

Grading Policy:

Homework and Class Participation	30% of total
Midsemester Exams	20%+20% of total
Final Exam	30% of total

Some old notes:++

Communications Notes Collin's book ITU-R REC-P.452 Lunar Occulation Theory Lunar Occulation Measurements Paper on Multiple Knife Edge Ground Wave Attenuation Ground Wave - Collin Derivation Booker Clemmow papers Clemmow's book Norton's paper Gilbert paper on Pierce antenna system Clarke paper Jakes book MIMO-OFDM ChoETAL book Farley/Hagfors manuscript on IS Kudeki & Milla 2011 papers Milla & Kudeki 2009 collisions paper Nyquist Noise Paper 1928 Nyquist Noise + Langevin Equation ChirpZ transform paper for Gordeyev computations

Ground Reflections Reflection Coefficients & Space Wave - Math.nb Space Wave Links Apertures & Diffraction I Weyl Identity Proof 2D Huygens Derivation Cornu Spiral Cornu Spiral - Math.nb Diffraction II and Edge Waves Point Source Effect (JB68) Diffraction Examples Ground Wave Propagation Ground Wave Propagation - New Notes Clarke paper with EK annotations Bessel Integrals Signal Types - Spectra & ACF Fading Signal Statistics and Spectral Estimation Error Covariances and Fitting Radar Interferometric Imaging Bragg Scattering - Macroscopic Approach Soft Target Radar Equation Incoherent Scatter Radar Notes Visibility/Brightness Fourier Pair Gordeyev Integrals - Thermal & Collisional cases Conductivity and ISR Spectrum of Thermal Plasma Magneto-Ionic Propagation Ionograms & Whistlers Anisotropic and Magnetoionic Media

Microlectures: (streaming from Illinois Media Space)

Fourier/Laplace Transforms++ 2D Diffraction - A Review Old Lecture Videos 2017 Lecture Videos