TY - JOUR
T1 - Outdoor-to-Indoor Empirical Path Loss Models
T2 - Analysis for Pico and Femto Cells in Street Canyons
AU - Castro, Guillermo
AU - Feick, Rodolfo
AU - RODRIGUEZ GUZMAN, MAURICIO ALEJANDRO
AU - Valenzuela, Reinaldo
AU - Chizhik, Dmitry
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Channel characterization and modeling
KW - outdoor-to-indoor
KW - prediction tools
KW - propagation
KW - small cells
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021751289&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/LWC.2017.2715169
DO - 10.1109/LWC.2017.2715169
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021751289
VL - 6
SP - 542
EP - 545
JO - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
JF - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
SN - 2162-2337
IS - 4
M1 - 7947179
ER -