The effects of foliage on 5.8GHz Broadband Fixed Wireless Access (BFWA)

Author

Muhammad, N.A. ; Rahman, T.A. ; Rahim, S.K.A.

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Center, Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia

fYear

2010

fDate

9-11 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper investigates the foliage effect on fixed wireless links based on IEEE 802.11a standard operating at frequency 5.8GHz of Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (UNII) bands. Based on the studies of the measured received signal profiles under two different links, it is observed that the foliage obstruction gives significant effects on the link performance. The results from measurements performed are discussed and presented in term of their statistical distribution.

Keywords

broadband networks; microwave links; radio access networks; statistical distributions; vegetation; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11a standard; Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure band; broadband fixed wireless access; foliage effect; frequency 5.8 GHz; statistical distribution; wireless link; Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Broadband communication; Frequency measurement; Loss measurement; Receivers; Wireless communication; Foliage; Line of Sight; Non-Line of Sight; Propagation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics (APACE), 2010 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Port Dickson

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8565-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APACE.2010.5719760

Filename

5719760