A wide-band propagation model based on UTD for cellular mobile radio communications

Abstract

The present wide-band propagation model based on uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD) for cellular mobile radio communications includes two major contributions. First, a UTD-based narrow-band channel transfer function containing both the diffracted electric field and the reflection of diffracted electric fields is derived. Not only is it an important element of the wide-band modeling method, but it also leads to a total path-loss prediction model verified by comparisons with previously published theoretical and experimental results. In particular, the distance for horizontal placement on the street allows one to calculate the ray-path length difference (used in wide-band modeling) for the diffracted field and the reflection. Second, new refinements (including a number of explicit-form expressions to an existing method experimentally confirmed, simulating wide-band radiowave propagation for rural environments including terrain profiles) are added, making it applicable here. The method generates the time-domain path loss, wide-band path loss, and the relative power in the frequency domain. The time-domain path loss physically interprets and reasonably predicts the power delay profiles. The presence of this and similar power delay profiles, as well as the behavior of the relative power in the frequency domain, has been confirmed by existing wide-band propagation measurements. The value of the wide-band path loss is of the order of the total path loss at the carrier frequency.