Peer-to-peer low antenna outdoor radio wave propagation at 1.8 GHz

Author

Patwari, Neal ; Durgin, Gregory D. ; Rappaport, Theodore S. ; Boyle, Robert J.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

371

Abstract

In this outdoor propagation study low antenna heights of 1.7 m are used at both the transmitter and the receiver to measure wideband (100 MHz baseband) power-delay profiles (PDPs) of the channel for a peer-to-peer communications system operating at 1.8 GHz. Rural and urban areas are studied in 22 different transmitter-receiver links, and the path loss and delay spread characteristics are presented. The small-scale multipath fading characteristics are measured in detail by recording 160 PDPs within each local area. This paper shows the measurement setup for calculation of the fading rate variance and the estimation of the angular spread of each multipath component. The accuracy of the angular spread is discussed

Keywords

UHF antennas; UHF radio propagation; delays; fading channels; land mobile radio; multipath channels; 1.8 GHz; angular spread; delay spread; fading rate variance; low antenna heights; multipath component; outdoor propagation; path loss; peer-to-peer low antenna outdoor radio wave propagation; power-delay profiles; rural areas; small-scale multipath fading characteristics; transmitter-receiver links; urban areas; Antenna measurements; Antennas and propagation; Baseband; Broadband antennas; Fading; Peer to peer computing; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999 IEEE 49th

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1999.778079

Filename

778079