Narrow-band small area microcellular mobile radio channel characterization using ray tracing technique

Author

Abbas, Syed A. ; Sheikh, Asrar U H

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

fYear

1993

fDate

18-20 May 1993

Firstpage

589

Lastpage

592

Abstract

The simulation of a microcellular mobile radio propagation environment is performed using a modified ray tracing technique. The modified ray tracing also accounts for building edge diffraction using Keller´s geometrical theory of diffraction. Narrowband small area statistics are investigated by fitting Nakagami, Rice and Rayleigh distributions. The physical significance of Nakagami `m´ parameter is presented. It may be used for system design

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; cellular radio; fading; geometrical theory of diffraction; land mobile radio; ray tracing; simulation; Keller´s geometrical theory of diffraction; Nakagami distribution; Rayleigh distribution; Rice distribution; building edge diffraction; microcellular mobile radio channel characterization; modified ray tracing; simulation; small area statistics; system design; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Cities and towns; Diffraction; Land mobile radio; Mobile antennas; Narrowband; Ray tracing; Receiving antennas; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1993., 43rd IEEE

Conference_Location

Secaucus, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1267-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1993.507542

Filename

507542