A methodology to minimize the measured points for project an indoor WLAN

The main goal of this paper is to propose a methodology to determine the minimum number of measurement points in an indoor environment for a 2.4 GHz Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) project. For validate this methodology, measurement campaigns was accomplished in two buildings (indoor environments), using an access point as signal transmitter, and a notebook computer as receiver, equipped with a wireless board. Collected data have been expanded using a generalized regressor. Propagation loss computation has been made using the expanded data in an adapted Pade Approximant model from the total points. Results obtained show that the methodology can be applied successfully.