Propagation measurement in IMT-2000 band in Malaysia environment

Author

Rahman, Tharek Abdul ; Ser, Gan Beng

Author_Institution

Fak. Kejunteraan Elektrik, Univ. Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

77

Abstract

The mobile radio channel is one of the factors, which limits the performance of wireless communication systems. The radio path (the path between the transmitter and receiver) can vary from a simple line-of-sight (LOS) to one that is blocked by mountains. The performance of wireless channels is hard to predict compared to wired channels. A propagation measurement has been carried out in conjunction with the W-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access) field trial in Malaysia. The main objective of the measurement is to determine the performance of the W-CDMA system in Malaysia environment. The system performance is evaluated base on the bit error rate (BER). The pathless exponent (propagation power law) was also investigated. The BER measurement was based on the BER on the downlink of the base transceiver system (BTS)

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; cellular radio; code division multiple access; error statistics; 2117.5 MHz; BER; IMT-2000 band; Malaysia; W-CDMA field trial; base transceiver system downlink; bit error rate; line-of-sight path; mobile radio channel; propagation power law; radio propagation measurement; wideband code division multiple access; wireless channels; wireless communication systems; Bit error rate; Downlink; Land mobile radio; Multiaccess communication; Radio transmitters; Receivers; System performance; Transceivers; Wideband; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2000. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6355-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2000.893544

Filename

893544