Title:

Radio wave propagation and single-cell coverage prediction of broadband radio access systems including passive reflectors, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2001, nr 2

Creator:

Jakoby, Rolf ; Bauer, Georg ; Freese, Jens

Subject and Keywords:

coverage prediction ; LMDS ; millimeter wave propagation ; passive reflectors

Description:

This paper presents the scheme of a software planing tool for single microcells of broadband radio access systems operating at millimeter waves, providing local multi- point distribution services (LMDS), particularly in urban or suburban areas. The aim of this planing tool is to provide operators with information, which supports the assessment of the profitability by calculating link budgets and the area coverage and by roughly estimating the maximum number of potential customers, i.e. the total number of households in a certain area, as well as the number of customers (house-holds) which will actually be covered from a site. A house-hold is here considered as a single apartment or flat, thus a building usually consists of several households. This novel household-estimation model is able to estimate the number of households based only on the 3D-data of buildings, without using residential data. Besides the optimization of line-of-sight (LOS) coverage, also the possibility is considered to enhance the coverage into shadowed areas by using optimized reflectors as passive repeaters up to distances of 1 km from the base station, depending on the system margin and the rain climate zone. All calculations are based on 3D-databases of both, buildings and vegetation.

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Date:

2001, nr 2

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 1509-4553, on-line: ISSN 1899-8852

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2001.2.58

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności