Empirical investigation of the effect of the door´s state on received signal strength in indoor environments at 2.4 GHz

Due to the wide deployment of indoor wireless local area networks (WLANs), the indoor planning became a research of interest for IT as well as networking researchers. As a result of this wide deployment, many IT applications and services started relying on the ready implemented WLAN infrastructure. Therefore, there is a need for reliable propagation models which are able to predict the WLAN signal strength in indoor environments before starting the real world deployment which leads to an efficient and cost aware deployment process. In this paper we develop an empirical propagation model which focuses mainly on the effect of the door state on the propagated WLAN signal in indoor environments. The measurements were compared to other simulated results in literature. A new empirical parameter based on empirical measurements was introduced for a better estimation of the received signal strength (RSS).