On the performance of Cost 231 Walfisch Ikegami model in deployed 3.5 GHz network

Author

Alqudah, Yazan A.

Author_Institution

Commun. Eng. Dept., Princess Sumaya Univ. for Technol., Amman, Jordan

fYear

2013

fDate

9-11 May 2013

Firstpage

524

Lastpage

527

Abstract

Propagation models predict received signal power level and are critical for the proper planning and deployment of wireless networks. As new technologies are utilizing higher frequencies in the RF spectrum, new propagation models and the tuning of existing models are required. This paper studies the COST 231 Walfisch Ikegami model (adopted originally for frequencies up to 2 GHz) to determine its validity in the 3.5 GHz WiMAX deployment. Field measurements of signal power of deployed WiMAX network are collected and compared to predicted values using the model. Root mean square error is used to compare line of sight (LOS) and non-line of sight (NLOS) conditions.

Keywords

WiMax; mean square error methods; signal processing; Cost 231 Walfisch Ikegami model; NLOS conditions; RF spectrum; WiMAX deployment; WiMAX network; frequency 2 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; non-line of sight; propagation models; received signal power level; root mean square error; signal power; wireless networks; Europe; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Predictive models; Tuning; WiMAX; COST 231 Walfisch Ikegami; Path Loss; Propagation models;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Konya

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5612-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAEECE.2013.6557329

Filename

6557329