WLAN SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS IN AN INDOOR ENVIRONMENT - AN ANALYTIC MODEL AND EXPERIMENTS

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dc.contributor.advisorAgrawala, Ashoken_US
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Damayantien_US
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-10-11T10:05:41Z
dc.date.available2005-10-11T10:05:41Z
dc.date.issued2005-08-09en_US
dc.description.abstractIn today's environment, in which WLAN technology is being deployed extensively, in order to improve the effectiveness of such deployments it is necessary to have a detailed understanding of WLAN signal characteristics. Radio signal attenuation and path losses depend on the environment and have been recognized to be difficult to calculate and predict. Past studies of the signal propagation, in both an indoor and in an outdoor environment have used several models with varying degrees of success and/ or complexity. I present here a simple analytic model for an indoor environment, and use it for determining the signal strength in a 3-D environment with one transmitter. The model is experimentally verified and is shown to yield a good match with the measurements. Several consequences of the model are studied and contour plots mapping signal strengths are generated. Signal strengths in the presence of an obstruction in the field of the transmitter are studied.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2876
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComputer Scienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwireless LANen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsignal strength configurationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledobstructionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledline of sighten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledreflectionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledgeolocationen_US
dc.titleWLAN SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS IN AN INDOOR ENVIRONMENT - AN ANALYTIC MODEL AND EXPERIMENTSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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