Static and Dynamic Measurement of the UWB Distance Dependent Path Loss

Conference: European Wireless 2009 - 15th European Wireless Conference
05/17/2009 - 05/20/2009 at Aalborg, Denmark

Proceedings: European Wireless 2009

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Cepeda, Rafael; McGeehan, Joe; Beach, Mark (Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, UK)
Cepeda, Rafael; McGeehan, Joe (Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK)
Umaña, Marcela (School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, UK)

Abstract:
Residential indoor measurements of the line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) distance dependent path loss are analysed from 10 MHz to 4.5 GHz. For these measurements, a time domain sounder is used to interrogate the propagation channel in two ways: static, and dynamic. For the static measurements, the transmit and receive antennas are located at predefined locations and the sounding premises vacated before capturing channel impulse responses (CIRs). For the dynamic measurements, a person displaces the receive antenna over predefined paths while the sounder stores CIRs at specific time intervals. The measurements are compared and analysed, and a modelling scheme is proposed for the continuous simulation of the distance dependent path loss.