IEEE 802.11 WLANs: A comparison on indoor coverage models

Author

Andrade, Cassio Bento ; Hoefel, Roger Pierre Fabris

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Fed. Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, it is used analytical and measurement tools in order to compare five different indoor path loss propagation models: one-slope; dual-slope; partitioned; Cost-231 multi-wall model and average walls. The main objective is to use the receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) in order to set a simple and fast procedure, taking into account accuracy, complexity and scalability, to estimate the coverage of IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLANs). We have concluded that the average walls model propitiate a better path loss prediction among the selected models.

Keywords

indoor radio; radiowave propagation; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 WLAN; IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network; analytical tool; average walls model; cost-231 multiwall model; dual-slope model; indoor coverage model; indoor path loss propagation model; measurement tool; one-slope model; path loss prediction; receive signal strength indicator; Accuracy; Antenna measurements; Estimation; Loss measurement; Numerical models; Predictive models; Propagation losses; 802.11; RSSI; indoor path loss models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2010 23rd Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, AB

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5376-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575205

Filename

5575205