Electromagnetic propagation environment effects on the WiMAX communication system

Author

Badri, Hani Wadie ; Ghnimi, Said ; Gharsallah, Ali

Author_Institution

Unite de Rech.: Circuits et Syst. Electroniques HF, Fac. des Sci. de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

133

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to study the electromagnetic environment of WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) communication system working at 3.5 GHz. For this, we have analyzed and compared the radio signal loss in urban, suburban and rural environment with different receiver antenna height. The path loss prediction is obtained by three propagation models: SUI (Stanford University Interim), COST Hata and Ericsson model. The analysis was made using MATLAB software. The results shows that in general SUI model predict the lowest path loss, especially in suburban environments.

Keywords

WiMax; electromagnetic wave propagation; receiving antennas; COST Hata; Ericsson model; Matlab software; SUI; WiMax communication system; electromagnetic propagation environment effects; frequency 3.5 GHz; radio signal loss; receiver antenna height; rural environment; worldwide interoperability for microwave access communication system; Mathematical model; Predictive models; Propagation losses; Receiving antennas; Urban areas; WiMAX; COST Hata; Ericsson; SUI; WiMAX; path loss; propagation models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mediterranean Microwave Symposium (MMS), 2011 11th

Conference_Location

Hammamet

ISSN

2157-9822

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1814-4

Electronic_ISBN

2157-9822

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMS.2011.6068545

Filename

6068545