Abstract
Abstract
The unlicensed industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band at 2.4 GHz has gained increased attention recently due to high data rate communication systems developed to operate in this band. In this paper the investigation of the indoor electromagnetic propagation and indoor radio channel characteristics have been performed at this band. Electromagnetic waves propagate by means of reflection, refraction, and diffraction. Reflection mechanisms are dependent on the nature of the surface, dielectric properties, polarization, incidence angle, and material thickness. The effect of the incidence angle and material thickness on the reflection coefficients for both horizontal and vertical polarization has been studied. Two-dimensional ray-tracing simulation has been performed to show the influence of building electromagnetic properties on indoor radio channel parameters, signal level, RMS delay spread, and coherence bandwidth. Results show the influence of the permittivity is more important than the influence of the order of reflection considered for the ray- tracing model. It is shown that, compared with power level, RMS delay spread is more sensitive to the building dielectric parameters. Maximum RMS delay spread is dependent on the dielectric parameters of the surrounded walls.
Keywords: Radio propagation, Dielectric parameters, Indoor Channel Parameters
