Outdoor-to-Indoor Empirical Path Loss Models: Analysis for Pico and Femto Cells in Street Canyons

Guillermo Castro; Rodolfo Feick; Mauricio Rodríguez; Reinaldo Valenzuela; Dmitry Chizhik

doi:10.1109/LWC.2017.2715169

Outdoor-to-Indoor Empirical Path Loss Models: Analysis for Pico and Femto Cells in Street Canyons

Guillermo Castro, Rodolfo Feick, Mauricio Rodríguez, Reinaldo Valenzuela, Dmitry Chizhik

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Abstract

The applicability of COST231, WINNER+, ITU-R, and 3GPP urban microcell outdoor-to-indoor path loss prediction models is empirically tested in 100 m radius urban femtocells. The analysis is based on more than 500 link measurements. Considerations not specified in the models such as the inclusion of antenna gains and the effect of base station location on the street are evaluated. We find that for our scenarios, discrepancies among the models can reach up to 10 dB at the median. Using the WINNER+ model path loss with free-space antenna gains yields the best match to our measurements.

Original language	English
Article number	7947179
Pages (from-to)	542-545
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2017.2715169
State	Published - Aug 2017

Keywords

Channel characterization and modeling
outdoor-to-indoor
prediction tools
propagation
small cells

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