Visualising radio propagation inside buildings

Author

Jenvey, Stewart

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

2080

Abstract

An understanding of how the radio waves propagate is required in order to create computer-based models that predict radio coverage inside buildings. To help with this understanding, a method of measuring the magnitude and phase of spatial field distributions (at 1.905 GHz) inside buildings is described. The measurements are then used to create a time sequence of pictures of the instantaneous field distribution, which, when viewed sequentially, creates a movie which shows how the field is propagating in the region where the measurements were taken

Keywords

UHF measurement; UHF radio propagation; computer aided analysis; data visualisation; field strength measurement; indoor radio; phase measurement; radiowaves; telecommunication computing; 1.905 GHz; UHF; amplitude measurement; buildings; computer animations; computer-based models; indoor radio communication; instantaneous field distribution; phase measurements; radio coverage prediction; radio propagation visualisation; radiowave propagation; spatial field distributions; time sequence; Animation; Antenna measurements; Frequency; Optical propagation; Phase measurement; Position measurement; Predictive models; Radio propagation; Time measurement; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997, IEEE 47th

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3659-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1997.605964

Filename

605964