Prediction of urban propagation loss

Author

Grosskopf, Rainer

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Rundfunktechnik, Munchen, Germany

Volume

42

Issue

5

fYear

1994

fDate

5/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

658

Lastpage

665

Abstract

Two significantly different methods to calculate the path loss in urban areas are investigated in order to test their applicability to predicting the received power of a broadband DAB signal for mobile reception. The results were verified by broadband measurements of the received power in a DAB single-frequency network recently installed in Munich. Although these methods use totally different approaches to calculate the path loss, their predictions of the mean received power are of comparable accuracy. However, in order to cope with the need of a coverage for 99% of the locations for a digital service and mobile reception, it is worthwhile to use rather complex methods that are capable of providing information about the local variation of the signal. One such method will be described in this paper

Keywords

digital radio systems; loss measurement; radio broadcasting; radiowave propagation; Munich; broadband DAB signal; broadband measurements; digital service; local signal variation; mean received power; mobile reception; path loss prediction; received power; single-frequency network; urban areas; urban propagation loss; Associate members; Bandwidth; Digital audio broadcasting; Frequency division multiplexing; Power measurement; Propagation losses; Testing; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/8.299565

Filename

299565