Title :
Characterization of indoor propagation for three dimensional femtocell environment
Author :
Zyoud, Alhareth ; Habaebi, Mohamed Hadi ; Zakaria, Rose Aina Suwaida ; Islam, Md Rafiqul ; Chebil, Lalel ; Alshibly, Mohammed ; Lwas, Ali K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia (HUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract :
Femtocell gains the interest of more than 160 mobile operators around the world. For the reason that femtocell improve the signal power inside the building and reduce the main network traffic and thus increase the capacity. However, deployment the femtocell may cause interference to the existing network. Therefore, understanding the behavior of indoor signal propagation is essential to minimize the interference and get the total benefit of femtocell deployment. In this paper, measurements of the signal strength at 2.6 GHz were carried out for three dimensional scenario using Omni-directional antenna. The line of sight and none of sight cases were considered in the proposed scenario. These measurements are important in order to propose an empirical model for indoor propagation that may be used in system level simulators. In addition, a comparison with available models for indoor propagation was conducted. It was found that the available models in the literature are underestimated the measured data.
Keywords :
UHF radio propagation; femtocellular radio; indoor radio; radiofrequency interference; Omni-directional antenna; THREE dimensional femtocell environment; empirical model; femtocell deployment; frequency 2.6 GHz; indoor propagation characterization; mobile operators; network traffic; power signal improvement; signal strength; system level simulators; Femtocell; empirical models; indoor propagation; three diminssional modeling;
Conference_Titel :
Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications (ICSIMA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8039-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSIMA.2014.7047433
