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2008-09-18
A Model for Transition Between Outdoor and Indoor Propagation
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 85, 147-167, 2008
Abstract
We present a novel outdoor-indoor radio wave propagation model. It predicts the electric field envelope Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) in a room placed near a radio communication emitter. The experimental CDF obtained from the simulation, fits the experimental CDF obtained from a measurement campaign carried out over 19200 sampling points inside the room. The maximum deviation found between these CDFs is less than 1%. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test is employed to analyze the goodness of fit. P-values around 99% are reached. A comparison is made with other classical methods reported in the literature as ray-tracing (RT) and a hybrid method employing finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) together with RT. The proposed model significantly improves the results achieved in those previous investigations. Although we study the problem in three dimensions, the repetitive nature of the algorithm allows us to parallelize the computation process speeding the calculations.
Citation
Juan Blas Prieto, Patricia Fernandez Reguero, Ruben Mateo Lorenzo Toledo, Evaristo Jose Abril, Santiago Mazuelas Franco, Alfonso Bahillo Martinez, and David Bullid, "A Model for Transition Between Outdoor and Indoor Propagation," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 85, 147-167, 2008.
doi:10.2528/PIER08072101
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