Building penetration loss at 2 GHz for mobile communications at high elevation angles by HAPS

Author

Axiotis, Dimitrios I. ; Theologou, Michail E.

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Lab., Athens Nat. Tech. Univ., Greece

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

27-30 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

282

Abstract

We examine the building penetration loss at 2 GHz in the case of high altitude platform stations (HAPS). The HAPS system will be used for 3G mobile communications. In order to investigate outdoor to indoor propagation at the high elevation angles involved in this system, we developed a 3-D ray tracing tool. The tool was used for the case of a block of 9 buildings in a Manhattan scenario and the building penetration loss was calculated at several elevation angles. It is concluded that the penetration loss is an increasing function of the elevation angle.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; UHF radio propagation; electromagnetic wave absorption; indoor radio; land mobile radio; losses; ray tracing; 2 GHz; 3D ray tracing tool; 3G mobile communications; HAPS; Manhattan; UHF; building penetration loss; high altitude platform stations; high elevation angles; indoor propagation; mobile communications; outdoor propagation; Base stations; Buildings; Equations; Laboratories; Mobile communication; Phased arrays; Ray tracing; Satellite broadcasting; Telecommunication computing; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 2002. The 5th International Symposium on

ISSN

1347-6890

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7442-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088177

Filename

1088177