Short term propagation analysis in a deciduous tree forest

Wireless networks are extending their uses to many new environments, most of them involving rural areas such as different kind of forests. There are multiple studies regarding long term propagation measurements, but this research is focused into short term analysis, which seems to be as important as long term analysis. The main aim of this paper is to compare the way the statistical dispersion of the received power increases with the distance between the transmitter and the receiver in a peer to peer configuration, within the same deciduous oak tree forest both in summer and winter. Three different frequencies were studied: 2.4, 3.5 and 5.8 GHz, and the evolution of the interquartile range with the distance obtained for each configuration has been analyzed.