Building Penetration Losses and Noise Levels Characterization in Medium Wave

Author

Fernandez, Igor ; Peña, Ivan ; Angueira, Pablo ; Gil, Unai ; Ordiales, Juan Luis ; Landa, Iratxe

Author_Institution

Electron. & Telecommun. Dept., Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

Volume

11

fYear

2012

fDate

7/4/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1056

Lastpage

1059

Abstract

A study of building penetration losses and noise levels in the Medium Wave band is presented in this letter. The corresponding results were obtained from a significant set of empirical data taken at several frequencies between 600 kHz and 1600 kHz during exhaustive indoor and outdoor measurement campaigns carried out in northern Spain. Building penetration losses at these frequencies were quantified and a mean value of 6.5 dB was calculated. Signal and noise spatial variability was characterized obtaining noteworthy standard deviations of more than 10 dB for both indoor and outdoor environments. Also, noise levels for these two types of environments were analyzed and the conclusion in this case was that there is not a major difference between them.

Keywords

indoor environment; indoor radio; losses; radiotelemetry; radiowave propagation; building penetration loss; exhaustive indoor measurement campaign; exhaustive outdoor measurement campaign; frequency 600 kHz to 1600 kHz; gain 6.5 dB; indoor environment; medium wave band; noise level characterization; noise spatial variability; northern Spain; outdoor environment; signal spatial variability; Antenna measurements; Buildings; Frequency measurement; Loss measurement; Noise; Noise level; Standards; Building penetration losses; Medium Wave (MW); indoor and outdoor environments; noise levels;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2012.2215833

Filename

6289335