TY - JOUR
T1 - Prediction of site specific coverage and cell shape for outdoor microcells
AU - Bertoni, H. L.
AU - Piazzi, L.
AU - Liang, G.
AU - Wo, Nai
AU - Wong, E.
N1 - Funding Information:
*This work was supported in part by-a Motorola Partnership in Research Grant and in part by a grant from the New York State Science and Technology Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1995 IEEE.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - The design of future wireless communication systems employing microcells will require a flexible tool for determining the coverage area based on site specific features. In this paper, the accuracy of a ray based algorithm for predicting the sector average path loss in residential and high rise environments is investigated by comparison with measurements. Measurements were taken in residential and in high rise environments. In the residential environment building heights ranged from 1 to 3 stories and the base station antenna was near rooftop levels, propagation between the base station and the mobile consisted mainly of paths which went over the intervening buildings. This was validated by good agreement with the measurements for the antenna above the rooftops, and fair agreement for the antenna below the rooftops. In the high rise environment the buildings were significantly higher than the base station antenna, so that the dominant contributions to the signal at the receiver are due to propagation around the buildings. Once again the predictions corresponded well the measurements.
AB - The design of future wireless communication systems employing microcells will require a flexible tool for determining the coverage area based on site specific features. In this paper, the accuracy of a ray based algorithm for predicting the sector average path loss in residential and high rise environments is investigated by comparison with measurements. Measurements were taken in residential and in high rise environments. In the residential environment building heights ranged from 1 to 3 stories and the base station antenna was near rooftop levels, propagation between the base station and the mobile consisted mainly of paths which went over the intervening buildings. This was validated by good agreement with the measurements for the antenna above the rooftops, and fair agreement for the antenna below the rooftops. In the high rise environment the buildings were significantly higher than the base station antenna, so that the dominant contributions to the signal at the receiver are due to propagation around the buildings. Once again the predictions corresponded well the measurements.
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U2 - 10.1109/WCSS.1995.588518
DO - 10.1109/WCSS.1995.588518
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85063336264
SN - 2154-0217
SP - 251
EP - 256
JO - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
JF - Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
M1 - 588518
T2 - 1995 IEEE Wireless Communication System Symposium, WCSS 1995
Y2 - 27 November 1995 through 28 November 1995
ER -