Indoor Penetration of Outdoor Urban UMTS Coverage: An Experimental Model

Author

Denegri, Livio ; Lavagetto, Fabio ; Iscra, Alessandro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., Genoa Univ., Genoa

fYear

2008

fDate

11-14 May 2008

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

313

Abstract

The development of the new third generation cellular system, the UMTS, makes an extensive use of microcells and picocells other than macrocells: picocells are especially used to offer indoor radio coverage. Usually, indoor coverage design is modeled by disregarding the outdoor signal and by analyzing only micro and picocells placed indoor. This paper investigates the importance of the signal penetrating through windows and the measurements performed highlight how to decouple outdoor and indoor effects by modeling windows as equivalent radiating antennas. This solutions can be used as a precious support to indoor cellular design.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; antenna radiation patterns; indoor communication; picocellular radio; indoor coverage design; indoor radio coverage; outdoor urban UMTS coverage; picocells; radiating antenna; third generation cellular system; 3G mobile communication; Apertures; Buildings; Diffraction; Macrocell networks; Microcell networks; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Signal analysis; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008. VTC Spring 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Singapore

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1644-8

Electronic_ISBN

1550-2252

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2008.76

Filename

4525632