Statistical distributions of fields in urban environment based on Monte Carlo simulations of Maxwell equations

Author

Xu, Peng ; Lam, King Wai ; Tsang, Leung ; Lai, Kin Lun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Wuhan Univ., China

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

37

Abstract

We studied wave propagation in an urban environment based on Monte Carlo simulations of Maxwell´s equations. The multilevel steepest descent fast multipole method (ML/SD/FMM) is used in the computations. The building profile is about 2 km in length and the frequency is 900 MHz. Numerical results are statistically analyzed to study the spatial variations, including fast fading, shadow fading, and range dependence. The results are compared with the Rayleigh, Rician, and lognormal distributions.

Keywords

Maxwell equations; Monte Carlo methods; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; UHF radio propagation; gradient methods; log normal distribution; statistical analysis; 900 MHz; Maxwell equations; Monte Carlo method; Rayleigh distribution; Rician distribution; fast fading; field statistical distributions; lognormal distribution; multilevel steepest descent fast multipole method; range dependence; shadow fading; urban environment; wave propagation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2004.827896

Filename

1290933