WCDMA multiclass downlink capacity and interference statistics of cigar-shaped microcells in highways

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1048-5In this paper, the multiclass downlink capacity and the interference statistics of the sectors of a cigar-shaped microcells using wideband code-division multiple-access with soft handover mode are analyzed. The two-slope propagation model with log-normal shadowing is used in the analysis where a model of 8 cigar-shaped microcells is utilized. The performance of the downlink is studied for different [sector range R, standard deviation of the shadowing (σ1 and σ2) and propagation exponents (s1 and s2)]. It is found that increasing the sector range from 500 to 1,000 m will increase the sector downlink capacity. Also, it is found that increasing the value of the propagation parameters (σ1 and σ2) will reduce the downlink sector capacity. It is noticed that, the effect of changing the propagation exponent s1 is null while increasing the propagation exponent s2 will increase the downlink capacit

Effect of Antenna’s Gain, Polarization and Channel Bandwidth on Short Range Directive Channel Propagation Loss in Indoor Environment at 5.6 GHz Band

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2677-7Propagation loss models for indoor environment are presented. The directive channel propagation loss in indoor environment at a frequency band of 5.6 GHz with a channel bandwidth of 300 and 20 MHz is measured using both vertical and horizontal polarizations. Sets of directive panel antennas are used in the measurements. RF signal generator and a spectrum analyzer are used in the measurement campaign. It is found that propagation loss is sensitive to the scenario configuration. It is noticed that the propagation loss can be modelled by two slopes propagation model giving a rise to two propagation zones. It is noticed that the first zone of propagation is almost free space propagation zone. In general, the second zone has a higher deviation from the mean value of propagation loss

Multipath effect on the WCDMA uplink capacity of highways cigar-shaped microcells with users within cars and buses

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0900-3In this work, the effect of the multipath on the capacity and the interference statistics of the sectors of the highways cigar-shaped W-CDMA microcells is studied. A model of five microcells is used to analyze the uplink. The capacity and the interference statistics of the microcell are studied for different antenna sidelobe levels and different sector ranges. In the study, imperfect power control and limited transmitted power are assumed. Users are assumed to be within equally spaced buses and cars. The uplink capacity of the sector is studied assuming three types of services, namely, voice, 3G data and 3.75G data (representing the High Speed Uplink Packet Access). It is shown that, the sector uplink capacity depends on the buses and cars density within the sector. The capacity is also given as a function of the number of buses and cars within the sector

Polarization Diversity UWB Antennas with and without Notched Bands

Acknowledgement to The Electromagnetics AcademyIn this article, a couple of UWB antennas are presented. These antennas have the shape of two overlapped circles. The presented antennas are polarization diversity antennas with and without dual band reject filters. Measurements show that the antennas work well within the whole UWB. Antennas have practical reflection parameters S11 and S22 lower than −10 dB, practical coupling parameters S12 and S21 lower than −15 dB, an Envelope Correlation Coefficient lower than 0.015 and a diversity gain between 9.97 to 9.99 dB. Simulations of the antennas are done using the CST softwar

On the Impact of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) on Macrocell Downlink of UMTS and CDMA-450 Systems

Results of the analytical analysis to assess the effect of the ultra-wideband (UWB) emissions on the [universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) and code division multiple access systems (CDMA-450)] are presented. The (UMTS and CDMA- 450 systems) normalized range and normalized capacity degradation are evaluated. A free-space propagation model is used to calculate the UWB signal power that interferes with both mobile systems. It is shown that, for the case of a single UWB transmitter, the UMTS can easily tolerate UWB interference when the UWB equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) is -92.5 dBm/MHz or less for a distance between the UWB transmitter and the UMTS mobile of 1 m or higher. Also, it is shown that, for the case of multi-UWB transmitters, the UMTS can easily tolerate the UWB interference when the UWB EIRP is -94.5 dBm/MHz. For the single UWB transmitter case, the CDMA-450 downlink can tolerate UWB interference when the UWB power density is in the order of -106 dBm/MHz. For the case of multi-UWB transmitters, the power density that can be tolerated by the downlink of the CDMA- 450 system is in the order of -108 dBm/MHz

WCDMA uplink capacity of highways cigar-shaped microcells with incorporated HSUPA service

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0229-3The multi-service (voice, data and HSUPA) uplink capacity and the interference statistics of the sectors of the cigar-shaped WCDMA microcell are studied using a model of 5 highway microcells. The two-slope propagation loss model with lognormal shadowing is used in the analysis. It is concluded that the voice and data service are significantly affected by HSUPA users and sector capacity decreases dramatically when one of these users gets connected to a given sector or to one next to it. Also it has been concluded that the capacity decrement is highly sensitive to the location of the HSUPA users. Thus, no more than one HSUPA with a process gain of 16 can be connected to a given base station. In this case, the HSUPA user should interrupt its transmission when it is near to the sector border. No more than one HSUPA user with a process gain of 8 is permitted in a given sector and the sector next to it. When the HSUPA user is at the sector border, its transmission should be disabled

UHF band short range propagation model

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1188-7The purpose of this study is to characterize the indoor and indoor–outdoor propagation in different scenarios, using monopole antennas working at 410 and 890 MHz. Propagation of narrow band and wide bands have been studied. In scenarios with a continuous variation of the distance between the transmitter and receiver antenna (1 D scenarios), we use a log-distance path loss model to determine the equations that describe the mean value of the path loss. In scenarios where the position of the receiver is not a uniform function of the distance between the transmitter and the receiver, we represent the basic propagation gain as a function of the measurement point index. Results show that the indoor propagation gain can be described using two slopes propagation model. For the multiwall attenuation loss it is shown that each wall has an attenuation of almost 2.5 dB at 410 MHz increasing to almost 4 dB at 890 MHz. The obstruction gain (loss) due to human beings shows that this can be within a 40 dB interval