FDTD modeling and characterization of the indoor radio propagation channel in the 434 MHz ISM band

Author

Papamichael, V. ; Soras, C. ; Makios, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Patras Univ., Greece

fYear

2003

fDate

1-3 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

220

Abstract

In this paper the fundamental aspects of indoor radio propagation are presented and the possibility to characterize a dynamic channel by means of a static model based on the finite difference time domain method (FDTD) is examined. A 3D office environment is simulated in the 434 MHz ISM band for the characterization of channel operation according to the dominating distortions. The obtained results, which are in agreement with the theoretical values, verify that the channel operation is slow flat fading with No ISI making the application of the spatial diversity the most appropriate scheme.

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; diversity reception; finite difference time-domain analysis; indoor radio; office environment; 3D office environment; 434 MHz; 434 MHz ISM band; FDTD modeling; channel characterization; channel operation; finite difference time domain method; indoor radio propagation; spatial diversity; Coherence; Computer errors; Electromagnetic propagation; Finite difference methods; Indoor environments; Indoor radio communication; Random processes; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Statistical analysis; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Electromagnetics and Communications, 2003. ICECom 2003. 17th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

953-6037-39-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECOM.2003.1290993

Filename

1290993