Characteristics of impulsive noise in the 450-MHz band in hospitals and clinics

Author

Blankenship, T. Keith ; Rappaport, Theodore S.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

46

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

194

Lastpage

203

Abstract

This paper presents an experimental study of impulsive noise in urban hospitals and clinics. A receiver was designed to resolve impulsive noise bursts as short as 2 μs in duration in the 450-MHz band. Extensive measurements were taken at three hospitals and three clinics in three major urban areas across the United States and empirical models are provided for the amplitude, interarrival time, and duration distributions of observed impulsive noise events. This work may be used in modeling the noise found in indoor wireless communication channels

Keywords

UHF measurement; biomedical engineering; electric noise measurement; indoor radio; radiofrequency interference; 2 mus; 450 MHz; EM radiated fields; RFI; UHF; United States; amplitude; duration distribution; empirical models; experimental study; impulsive noise characteristics; indoor wireless communication channels; interarrival time; noise measurements; urban areas; urban clinics; urban hospitals; Band pass filters; Electromagnetic compatibility and interference; Electromagnetic interference; Gaussian noise; Hospitals; Noise figure; Noise level; Noise measurement; Radio frequency; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/8.660963

Filename

660963