Tutorial I: Learning the Principles of Mobile Radio Propagation through Smartphone and CRFO

TL;DR

This tutorial introduces smartphone-based experiments to understand core mobile radio propagation phenomena and demonstrates the use of CRFO for visualizing radio coverage, aiding practical learning in mobile communications.

Contribution

It provides accessible experiments and a visualization platform to enhance understanding of mobile radio propagation principles.

Findings

Effective smartphone experiments for learning pathloss and fading.

CRFO enables visualization of radio coverage maps.

Practical approach to mobile communication education.

Abstract

In this tutorial, we present three simple smartphone based experiments for understanding the basic concepts of mobile communications such as pathloss, Shadow fading, and small scale fading. We also explain the use of Collaborative Radio Frequency Observatory (CRFO), an online platform, for visualizing radio coverage maps.