Measurement and validation of iBurst™ propagation against ray tracing software model

Integrated Sensor Information System (ISIS) is an intelligent sensor system which when installed in a public bus transport system, will detect potential criminal threats and relay live information gathered from audio/visual/RF sensors to a central control point through mobile wireless technology. ISIS will use iBurst™, a Mobile Broadband Wireless Access technology classified under the IEEE 802.20 standard. This paper outlines the study of iBurst™ and its application with ISIS. A study on the propagation characteristics of iBurst™ through simulations with a ray tracing software and through measured data was performed and a comparison is laid out between the Simulated and measured results. The accuracy of the deterministic ray tracing model is validated for iBurst™.