Analytical Study of Path Loss in Radio Wave Propagation Models of the GSM Cellular Communications Networks in the City of Sana'a

Abstract

The rapid growth of wireless communication technologies has increased the importance of a proper network planning. Before the actual installation of the network and to ensure that the network is adequately covered, network designers rely heavily on wave propagation models, which are a set of mathematical expressions, and graphs derived from comprehensive field measurements and it is used to represent radio wave properties of a particular environment. The research aims to find a mathematical model to predict the propagation path loss of radio waves in Sana'a city for the appropriate planning of cellular communication systems. In this sense, the researcher applied a practical study to the city of Sana'a by taking three cells (base station) in three different regions (urban and suburban areas and the open area). The research focuses on three stages (the stage of measurements, the stage of analysis and the stage of analysis and comparison). In the results, we obtained three values for path loss constants a and c for the three regions, through which we obtain the logarithmic curves, which in turn has been transformed into mathematical models to be used as a reference for radio planning engineers in the city of Sana'a, the capital of the Republic of Yemen.