Unified approach to prediction of propagation over buildings for all ranges of base station antenna height

Author

Maciel, Leandro Rocha ; Bertoni, Henry L. ; Xia, Howard H.

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Technol. in Telecommun., Polytech. Univ., NY, USA

Volume

42

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

2/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Theoretical results for the dependence on base station antenna height of the average received signal for mobiles at street level are presented. The results apply to residential and commercial sections of cities and to all ranges of antenna height from well above to below that of the surrounding buildings. Assuming all buildings to be of equal heights, the range dependence of the average signal is found by evaluating multiple forward diffraction past rows of buildings. The solution for this diffraction problem for sources near to or below the rooftops gives the dependence of the range index on antenna height and base station height gain, which are in agreement with measurements. These results will be of importance for proposed systems for personal communication services, which envision the use of base station antennas at the height of lamp posts, as well as cellular mobile radio

Keywords

mobile radio systems; radiowave propagation; average received signal; base station antenna height; buildings; cellular mobile radio; commercial buildings; multiple forward diffraction; personal communication services; radiowave propagation prediction; range index; residential buildings; street level mobiles; Antenna measurements; Antenna theory; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Cities and towns; Diffraction; Gain measurement; Mobile antennas; Personal communication networks; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9545

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/25.192385

Filename

192385