About the ICTP-UNESCO Wireless Training Kit
The ICTP-UNESCO Wireless Training Kit (WTKit or WTK) is a set of instrumentation, wireless devices, software, lecture notes, laboratory exercises guides, teacher's guides and pre-recorded video-lectures.
It's being developed by the ICTP-ARPL with the financial support of UNESCO and it's aimed to be a comprehensive tool to help teachers and academia in organizing training and research activities in wireless networking, with a strong component of hands-on practices.
The ITU also supports this project as part of its "ITU Academy" initiative.
It doesn't aim to substitute teachers, but to support and empower them with cost-effective modern technology and well-integrated didactical material distilled from years of training experiences by international experts. It also represents the most recent follow-up of the very successful free book "Wireless Networking in the Developing World"
(http://wndw.net) and its related training initiative "WirelessU" (http://wirelessu.org).
You can now get a pre-release of all WTKit lecture notes and exercises (preliminary version, mostly in PDF format):
download page for lecture notes and exercises
Executive summary document about the WTKit:
(in PDF format)
Please note that these are only preliminary versions of some of the lecture notes and exercises, NOT the final versions.
For every lecture, two PDF files are provided, with and without the detailed notes for the teacher. Please use the version without notes for the presentation, and the version with the notes for the preparation of the lectures. If you distribute copies of these preliminary files to students, we kindly ask you to provide both versions. We are committed to provide as soon as possible a source version too, for all lecture notes.
For some of the exercises, two versions are also provided, for the students and for the teachers (the latter with answers and explanations).
Last updated: July 27, 2010.
LECTURE NOTES:
- Why Wireless?
- Radio Physics
- dB Math
- Antennas and Transmission Lines
- Comparative use of Unlicensed Spectrum
- Introduction to WiFi
- Access Point Configuration
- Link Budget
- Introduction to Radio Mobile
- Planning a wireless link
- Outdoor installation, part 1
- Outdoor installation, part 2
- Long Distance wireless links
- Wireless Security
- Wireless tools
- Off-grid powering
EXERCISES:
- Setup of a Wireless ISP:
(version for IsquareIT, Pune, India)
(version for UI, Jakarta, Indonesia)
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)- Long distance link:
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)- Spectrum analysis:
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)- dB math:
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)- Link simulation with Radio Mobile:
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)
(version customized for Trinidad and Tobago)- Security:
- Planning of a PV solar system:
(ZIP archive with exercise and teacher's guide)- Advanced routing:
EXTRAS:
- Presentation of the Wireless Training Kit:
- Summary of the WTKit:
- Excel document with calculation of wind speed and power:
Sumber:
ICTP & UNESCO
