Prediction of IEEE802.16 performance for emergency vehicles to indoor from radio channel measurements in the 4.9 GHz band

Work reported herein contributes to the prediction of achievable performance of the IEEE 802.16 standard using time series of 50 Mchps PN channel sounder measurements at 4.9 GHz on radio channels in a scenario in which emergency vehicles are parked outside a building and operate as a centre for communications with rescue crews and equipment inside the building. Predicted error rates are presented for different modulation schemes used in accordance with the standard, including QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM and for different coding rates. Probability of error rates are presented for Rician channels that exhibited envelope fading with different K ratios.