Experimental verification of ray-tracing based propagation prediction models for urban microcell environments

Author

de Jong, Y.L.C. ; Herben, M.H.A.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1434

Abstract

A comparison is made between wideband angle-of-arrival measurements obtained in two urban microcell environments in Switzerland and predictions generated by a two-dimensional ray-tracing based propagation prediction model. In general, theoretical and experimental results show a reasonable agreement. It is demonstrated however that in some particular situations transmission through buildings and scattering by vegetation can be the dominant propagation mechanism

Keywords

UHF radio propagation; angular measurement; electromagnetic wave scattering; electromagnetic wave transmission; field strength measurement; microcellular radio; ray tracing; 2 GHz; 2D ray-tracing; Switzerland; UHF; base station antenna; buildings; experimental results; experimental verification; field strength measurement; multipath signal; propagation mechanism; ray-tracing based propagation prediction models; scattering; transmission; urban microcell environments; vegetation; wideband angle-of-arrival measurements; Antennas and propagation; Diffraction; Impedance; Microcell networks; Mobile antennas; Optical propagation; Optical scattering; Predictive models; Ray tracing; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999. VTC 1999 - Fall. IEEE VTS 50th

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5435-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.1999.801499

Filename

801499