Propagation over rooftop and in the horizontal plane for small and micro-cell coverage predictions

Author

Li, Jingming ; Wagen, Jean-Frédéric ; Lachat, Emmanuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mobile Commun., Swiss Telecom PTT, Bern, Switzerland

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

1123

Abstract

This paper investigates the wave propagation in the small and micro-cell of urban environments. The goal was to identify the main wave propagation contribution as a function of the base station (BS) antenna height, the distance from the base station and the environment. Three typical cases were studied where the BS antenna is: (1) above the rooftop, (2) at the rooftop height and (3) much below the surrounding buildings (microcell case). A 2D ray tracing in the horizontal plane and a 2D ray tracing in the vertical plane have been combined to perform the coverage predictions in the three cases. The prediction results are compared to measurements and the main propagation contributions are identified

Keywords

cellular radio; land mobile radio; radiowave propagation; ray tracing; 2D ray tracing; base station antenna height; horizontal plane; microcell coverage prediction; radio wave propagation; rooftop height; small cell coverage prediction; urban environment; vertical plane; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Cities and towns; Diffraction; Fresnel reflection; Mobile communication; Predictive models; Ray tracing; Size measurement; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3659-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1997.600505

Filename

600505