Static and dynamic measurement of the UWB distance dependent path loss

Author

Cepeda, Rafael ; McGeehan, Joe ; Umaña, Marcela ; Beach, Mark

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

17-20 May 2009

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Residential indoor measurements of the line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) distance dependent path loss are analysed from 10 MHz to 4.5 GHz. For these measurements, a time domain sounder is used to interrogate the propagation channel in two ways: static, and dynamic. For the static measurements, the transmit and receive antennas are located at predefined locations and the sounding premises vacated before capturing channel impulse responses (CIRs). For the dynamic measurements, a person displaces the receive antenna over predefined paths while the sounder stores CIRs at specific time intervals. The measurements are compared and analysed, and a modelling scheme is proposed for the continuous simulation of the distance dependent path loss.

Keywords

indoor communication; radiowave propagation; receiving antennas; telecommunication channels; transmitting antennas; ultra wideband technology; UWB distance dependent path loss; channel impulse responses; dynamic measurement; line of sight; propagation channel; receive antennas; residential indoor measurements; static measurement; time domain sounder; transmit antennas; Loss measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Conference, 2009. EW 2009. European

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5935-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EW.2009.5357756

Filename

5357756