On the Modeling of Reflected Energy From Building Faces in Microcellular Mobile Radio Planning Tools

Author

Constantinou, C.C. ; Mughal, M.J.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Univ. of Birmingham, UK

Volume

53

Issue

8

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2623

Lastpage

2630

Abstract

A semideterministic model of electromagnetic scattering from exterior urban building walls that is capable of modeling scattering from large-scale discontinuities such as ledges, windows, etc., is presented. The model is in quantitative agreement with spatiotemporally resolved measurements of scattering from a building wall at 2.4 GHz and can be used to construct relatively simple modified reflection coefficients that can be used in ray-optical microcellular planning tools.

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; electromagnetic wave reflection; electromagnetic wave scattering; microcellular radio; radiowave propagation; ray tracing; 2.4 GHz; electromagnetic reflection; electromagnetic scattering; exterior urban building wall; land mobile radio; microcellular propagation; radio propagation; ray tracing; ray-optical microcellular planning tool; semideterministic model; Buildings; Electromagnetic measurements; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic scattering; Energy resolution; Land mobile radio; Large-scale systems; Reflection; Spatiotemporal phenomena; Windows; Electromagnetic diffraction; electromagnetic reflection; electromagnetic scattering; land mobile radio microcellular propagation; radio propagation; ray tracing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2005.851805

Filename

1492613