Measurement of mobile radio propagation channel in ruins

Author

Chen, Ling ; Ostertag, Thomas ; Loschonsky, Marc ; Reindl, Leonhard M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Microsyst. Eng., Univ. of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 June 2010

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

256

Abstract

Within a running project, I-LOV¹, wireless communication channel model for mobile communications is developed based on measurements in reconstructed disaster and salvage scenarios. Due to complex environment in ruins, great multipath interference can take place, which strongly impacts communication quality and localization accuracy. Besides numerous measurements investigated in environments such as urban, outdoor-to-indoor or indoor, only a few are in ruins. This paper presents the first results of channel propagation measurements under collapsed buildings at GSM 900 and GSM 1800 bands. Measurement campaigns were performed in two typical collapsed structures: stratified and chaotic rubbles. The statistical properties of path-loss (PL) and RMS delay spread (DS) are reported.

Keywords

Buildings; Delay; Dipole antennas; Electric variables measurement; Frequency measurement; GSM; Interference; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Receiving antennas; RMS delay spread; channel measurement; collapsed buildings; mobile radio channels; multipath channel; path-loss; ruins;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (WCNIS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5850-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCINS.2010.5541724

Filename

5541724