Analysis of parameter sensitivity in a ray-tracing propagation environment

Author

Wang, S. S Peter ; Reed, J. Doug

Author_Institution

Motorola Res. Lab. Fort Worth, Ft. Worth, TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

805

Abstract

Ray-tracing has become increasingly popular for dense urban microcell prediction, and the results are generally better than can be obtained with other techniques, but questions remain on the sensitivity of the ray tracing algorithms to a number of parameters, including: building materials, environmental parameters, and various types of errors. A number of parameters are tested for its sensitivity to changes in the error of a nominal prediction

Keywords

UHF measurement; UHF radio propagation; building; cellular radio; electromagnetic wave diffraction; electromagnetic wave reflection; error analysis; land mobile radio; ray tracing; sensitivity analysis; 900 MHz; UHF; building materials; dense urban microcell prediction; diffraction; environmental parameters; errors; parameter sensitivity analysis; ray tracing algorithms; ray tracing propagation environment; reflection; signal prediction; Antenna measurements; Building materials; Diffraction; Dipole antennas; Microcell networks; Ray tracing; Reflection; Testing; Tiles; Transmitters;

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.1997.600440

Filename

600440