A Simple and Versatile Field Prediction Model for Indoor and Indoor-to-Outdoor Propagation

Vittorio Degli-Esposti; Enrico M. Vitucci; R. Martin

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2715119

IEEE Access (Jan 2017)

A Simple and Versatile Field Prediction Model for Indoor and Indoor-to-Outdoor Propagation

Vittorio Degli-Esposti,
Enrico M. Vitucci,
R. Martin

Affiliations

Vittorio Degli-Esposti: ORCiD; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Energia Elettrica e dell’Informazione “Guglielmo Marconi”, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Enrico M. Vitucci: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Energia Elettrica e dell’Informazione “Guglielmo Marconi”, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
R. Martin: Polaris Wireless Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2715119
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5
pp. 13270 – 13276

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A simple field prediction model based on a combination of a two-parameter propagation formula and a multi-wall model is proposed for fast and yet accurate indoor and indoor-to-outdoor field prediction. The model's approach is based on: simplicity; physical soundness; and adaptability to the available environment-database format. The model is validated versus both ray tracing and measurements in different environments and it is shown to perform very well in all cases. Moreover, the model is very fast and can exploit the accuracy plus of deterministic prediction based on the 3-D indoor building map whenever it is available.

Published in IEEE Access

ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Website: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6287639

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