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Title: Physics-based statistical model and simulation method of RF propagation in urban environments

Abstract

A physics-based statistical model and simulation/modeling method and system of electromagnetic wave propagation (wireless communication) in urban environments. In particular, the model is a computationally efficient close-formed parametric model of RF propagation in an urban environment which is extracted from a physics-based statistical wireless channel simulation method and system. The simulation divides the complex urban environment into a network of interconnected urban canyon waveguides which can be analyzed individually; calculates spectral coefficients of modal fields in the waveguides excited by the propagation using a database of statistical impedance boundary conditions which incorporates the complexity of building walls in the propagation model; determines statistical parameters of the calculated modal fields; and determines a parametric propagation model based on the statistical parameters of the calculated modal fields from which predictions of communications capability may be made.

Inventors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. San Jose, CA
  2. Tucson, AZ
Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1014684
Patent Number(s):
7796983
Application Number:
US Patent Application 11/414,054
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA); Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore, CA)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04B - TRANSMISSION
H - ELECTRICITY H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE H04W - WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Pao, Hsueh-Yuan, and Dvorak, Steven L. Physics-based statistical model and simulation method of RF propagation in urban environments. United States: N. p., 2010. Web.
Pao, Hsueh-Yuan, & Dvorak, Steven L. Physics-based statistical model and simulation method of RF propagation in urban environments. United States.
Pao, Hsueh-Yuan, and Dvorak, Steven L. Tue . "Physics-based statistical model and simulation method of RF propagation in urban environments". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1014684.
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Probability-density function for waves propagating in a straight PEC rough-wall tunnel
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