Heuristic modelling of outdoor path loss for 9m, 3m and 1.5m antenna at 677 MHz

Author

Dela Cruz, Jennifer C. ; Caluyo, Felicito S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of EECE, Mapua Inst. of Technol., Mapua, Philippines

fYear

2013

fDate

12-15 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

122

Abstract

This paper presents path loss models based on characterizations conducted for antenna heights of 9 m (fixed reception), 3 m (fixed reception), and 1.5 m (portable reception). Empirical measurements were done at predetermined measurement points consisting of 21 radials for a total of 92 locations extending to 20 kilometers around the National Broadcasting Network (NBN) digital transmitter using Integrated Services Digital Broadcast - Terrestrial (ISDB-T) to investigate the characteristics of 6 MHZ wideband Digital Terrestrial Television channel at 677 MHz Modulation Error Ration (MER), power received, field strength and delay profiles were captured to help characterize the channel in an urban area in and around Metro Manila at day time for temperatures ranging from 26°C to 32°C. These resulted to outdoor statistical prediction models that were further calibrated for improved accuracy using heuristic approach.

Keywords

UHF antennas; digital television; statistical analysis; television antennas; television broadcasting; television transmitters; ISDB-T; MER; Metro Manila; NBN; National Broadcasting Network; digital transmitter; empirical measurement; fixed reception antenna; frequency 677 MHz; heuristic modelling; integrated services digital broadcast-terrestrial; modulation error ration; outdoor path loss; portable reception Antenna; size 1.5 m; size 3 m; size 9 m; statistical prediction model; wideband digital terrestrial television channel; Conferences; Cybernetics; Intelligent systems; Artificial Neural Network (ANN); Digital Television; ISDB-T; Multiple linear regression; Path Loss;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS), IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Manila

ISSN

2326-8123

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1072-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIS.2013.6751589

Filename

6751589