Coverage analysis of outdoor public WiFi hotspot using full-wave electromagnetic simulation

Author

Chan-Keong Chio ; Sio-Weng Ting ; Kam-Weng Tam ; Sarkar, Tapan K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Macau, Macau, China

fYear

2013

fDate

7-13 July 2013

Firstpage

1538

Lastpage

1539

Abstract

In this paper the coverage of outdoor public WiFi hotspot and its radiation safety are studied through full-wave electromagnetic simulation. The simulation model includes both the WiFi antennas and the nearby building structures. In order to get a good balance between accuracy and computational efficiency, the simulation is based on the Method of Moments (MoM) with higher-order basis functions (HOBs), parallel computation and out-of-core technique. Good agreement is obtained between the simulation and localized measurement, and thus the effectiveness of the simulation approach is verified.

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic wave propagation; method of moments; wireless LAN; MoM; WiFi antennas; full-wave electromagnetic simulation; higher-order basis functions; method of moments; out-of-core technique; outdoor public WiFi hotspot; parallel computation; radiation safety; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Computational modeling; IEEE 802.11 Standards; Method of moments; Safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5315-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2013.6711428

Filename

6711428