• DocumentCode
    1435031
  • Title

    Terrain Partial Obstruction LOS Path Loss Model for Rural Environments

  • Author

    El-Sallabi, Hassan

  • Author_Institution
    Polaris Wireless, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • Volume
    10
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    7/3/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    151
  • Lastpage
    154
  • Abstract
    The first Fresnel zone of direct path interacts differently with various terrain profiles, resulting in different partial obstruction losses. This letter presents a new model for partial obstruction of descending terrain extracted from a large number of terrain profiles representing various terrain characteristics and base-station antenna heights. The model is simple enough to be effectively used in system-level simulations and RF predictions without excessive analysis of the underlying terrain data.
  • Keywords
    geographic information systems; losses; radiowave propagation; Fresnel zone; RF prediction; base-station antenna height; descending terrain extraction; different partial obstruction loss; direct path interaction; rural environment; system-level simulation; terrain partial obstruction LOS path loss model; Clutter; Computational modeling; Data models; Pixel; Predictive models; Receiving antennas; Fresnel zone; line of sight (LOS); partial obstruction; path loss; rural;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1225
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LAWP.2011.2108254
  • Filename
    5701648