Determination of Material Characteristics for Optimizing WLAN Radio

Author

Tesserault, Guillaume ; Malhouroux, Nadine ; Pajusco, Patrice

Author_Institution

France Telecom Orange Labs, Belfort

fYear

2007

fDate

8-10 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

228

Abstract

The experiment described in the following paper was performed to investigate RF propagation through different common building materials over a wide band of frequencies. The characterization is based on transmission power measurement. Results for the complex dielectric constant of each material over a frequency range of 2 to 16 GHz are presented. An internal multireflection model is used to compare experimental and theoretical transmission coefficients. A propagation loss model is developed using the attenuation induced by various walls. Finally, this path loss model is used to estimate coverage prediction of an indoor WLAN network at different frequencies.

Keywords

dielectric materials; permittivity; radiowave propagation; wireless LAN; RF propagation; WLAN radio; dielectric constant; internal multireflection model; material characteristics; propagation loss model; transmission power measurement; Attenuation; Building materials; Dielectric constant; Dielectric materials; Frequency estimation; Power measurement; Propagation losses; Radio frequency; Wideband; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technologies, 2007 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-2-87487-003-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2007.4403987

Filename

4403987