Wireless Communications

Principles and Practice

2nd Edition
T.S. Rappaport
Chapter 4: Mobile Radio
Propagation: Large-Scale Path Loss
Co-channel and Adjacent
Channel Interference,
Propagation
 Small-scale and large-scale fading

Figure 4.1 Small-scale and large-scale fading.

Antenna basics
Free-space and received fields
Reflection from smooth surface
Typical electromagnetic properties
Superposition for polarization
Reflection coefficients
Classical 2-ray ground bounce
model
Method of Images
Vector addition of 2 rays
Diffraction geometry
Fresnel Screens
 Fresnel diffraction geometry

Figure 4.12 Illustration of Fresnel zones for different knife-edge diffraction scenarios.
Knife-edge diffraction
Knife-edge diffraction loss
Multiple knife-edge diffraction
Measured results
Typical large-scale path loss
Measured large-scale path loss
Area versus Distance coverage
model with shadowing model
2-D Propagation Raster data
Representing propagation
Algorithm for line of sight (LOS)
Multiple diffraction computation
Modeling Mobile Radio Small-scale fading
Okumura and Hata’s model
Walfisch and Bertoni’s model
Measured data from San Francisco
Partition losses
Partition losses
Partition losses
Partition losses
Ericsson’s indoor model
Measured indoor path loss
Measured indoor path loss
Measured indoor path loss
Devasirvatham’s model