A Study on Path Loss for Indoor Wireless Communication Networks


Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Middlesex University, School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Computer Communications , İngiltere

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2013

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Ramazan Gokhan Donmez

Danışman: Enver Ever

Özet:

Design and deployment of a wireless communication networks require being able to model the path loss as realistic as possible. In this paper, several indoor empirical models to estimate path loss studies were studied and the standard deviations introduced by the models were compared, considering the complexity of indoor measurement environment in terms of the layout of the objects. The empirical model which assumes the path loss as the summation of free space loss and the individual losses introduced by each partition of any kind of material lying on the direct line between the transmitter and receiver, was critically decided to be the prominent model. Regarding it as the theoretical model to validate, experiments were conducted across several scenarios, by means of programming CC2420 motes and taking measurements via TinyOS. Some solutions were developed to overcome the inability of swept tuned spectrum analyser equipment to capture transient type signals transmitted from the motes.  In addition to attempts to validate the theoretical model, TinyOS based experiments also consists of determination of practical input antenna gain of the CC2420 motes as well as measurements of observer effect, message issuing frequency effect, and path loss values of doors and walls and some other objects in the environment.