An electromagnetic characterization of indoor radio environment in microwave WLAN systems

Author

Bernardi, P. ; Cicchetti, R. ; Testa, O.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria Elettronica, Rome Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

20-24 May 2001

Firstpage

1101

Abstract

An accurate electromagnetic characterization of a typical indoor environment in which a microwave WLAN system operates is presented. The characterization has been performed by means of a heuristic UTD diffraction coefficient suitable to take into account not only the effects of building walls, floors, and corners, but also the presence of penetrable furniture. The numerical results show that the electromagnetic field distribution and the channel performances are significantly influenced by the diffraction processes arising from the presence of furniture.

Keywords

geometrical theory of diffraction; indoor radio; wireless LAN; UTD diffraction coefficient; channel model; electromagnetic field distribution; furniture; indoor radio; microwave WLAN; Electromagnetic diffraction; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Indoor environments; Indoor radio communication; Optical diffraction; Optical scattering; Predictive models; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 2001 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6538-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2001.967084

Filename

967084