An approach to propagation prediction in a complex mine environment

Author

Ndoh, Moïse ; Delisle, Gilles Y. ; Le, Rene

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Laval Univ., Sainte-Foy, Que., Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

237

Lastpage

240

Abstract

Propagation loss measurements taken in a real gold mine in Val-d´Or, Northen Quebec, Canada at 900 MHz and 2.45 GHz are reported and compared with the ray tracing technique and the cascade impedance method. Significant statistical parameters for wireless communication such as mean, standard deviation, fast fading are presented. The probability laws and pdf density in the case of propagation in a mine tunnel are discussed and compared with the Rayleigh, Rice and statistical analysis of measurements in the case of fast fading, direct and multipath component ratio.

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; microwave propagation; prediction theory; probability; radiocommunication; ray tracing; cascade impedance method; channel modelling; complex gold mine; mine tunnel; pdf density; probability laws; propagation loss measurements; propagation prediction; ray tracing technique; statistical parameters; wireless communication; Communication standards; Gold; Impedance measurement; Loss measurement; Probability; Propagation losses; Ray tracing; Rayleigh channels; Statistical analysis; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2003. ICECom 2003. 17th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

953-6037-39-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECOM.2003.1290998

Filename

1290998