Modelling interference for indoor wireless systems using the FDTD method

A 2D TM_z implementation of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain algorithm is used to model radio-wave propagation from multiple transmitter locations in an eight storey building. From the steady-state field data, the Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) is calculated for down-link scenarios. One transmitter is located on each floor and two base-station configurations are examined: aligned and staggered. Vertically-aligned transmitters are found to have better SIR performance - 9% of the sectors in the aligned configuration and 23% in the staggered configuration have SIRs less than 5 dB. The central services core significantly reduces the SIR, however this effect can be alleiviated by including another set of vertically-aligned transmitters.