Electromagnetic characteristics of concrete buildings in urban microcellular radio propagation environment

Author

Selormey, Paul ; Miyazaki, Yasumitsu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Toyohashi Univ. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

436

Lastpage

439

Abstract

Detailed characterization of radio propagation channels is a major requirement for the successful design of mobile communication systems. In this paper, a mobile radio channel characterization process based on the FDTD method is presented. The merits and demerits of the currently used methods, namely the impulse-response method and ray-tracing methods, are briefly discussed. The total field formulation of the FDTD method is discussed. The simulation model consists of streets with concrete buildings. The received signals at the same LOS and OOS locations are presented

Keywords

concrete; finite difference time-domain analysis; microcellular radio; radiowave propagation; telecommunication channels; LOS locations; OOS locations; concrete buildings; electromagnetic characteristics; impulse-response method; radio propagation channels characterisation; ray-tracing methods; simulation model; urban microcellular radio propagation environment; Buildings; Computer science; Concrete; Fading; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Predictive models; Propagation losses; Radio propagation; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electromagnetic Compatibility, 1999 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

4-9980748-4-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ELMAGC.1999.801358

Filename

801358