Abstract
Over the past decade, spectrum sharing has evolved into viable commercial systems poised to meet the ever-increasing spectrum demand from service providers and end users. The key to the success of these systems is accurate and reliable propagation models that will simultaneously maximize the number of users able to access the spectrum and minimize the interference to incumbent or protected users. The classical propagation models currently utilized by these systems—the irregular terrain model (ITM) and extended hata (eHata)—do not account for features, such as foliage or endpoint clutter that can have a large impact on propagation loss. This article presents a measurement-based framework for updating these classical models and proposes a new integrated terrain and clutter model using publicly available geographic information system datasets. Over 400 000 path loss measurements were recorded in nine diverse locations across the United States at 1.7 and 3.5 GHz. Our updates improved the rms difference between measurements and model by 3–7 dB for ITM and 3–14 dB for eHata. In addition, we demonstrate several integrated terrain and clutter models that have rms differences ranging from 9.5 to 17.8 dB. Finally, cross validation was used to demonstrate the generalizability of our models to a wide variety of propagation environments.
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