Short-Term Modeling in Vegetation Media at Wireless Network Frequency Bands

Abstract

This paper presents a short-term analysis of the radio propagation channels within vegetation media at the most commonly used wireless network frequency bands: 2.4, 3.5, and 5.8 GHz. Fading effects underlying this short-term analysis would determine whether the radio channel could support a stable link or not. The configuration used in this study is a peer-to-peer system, where the transmitter and the receiver are located at low heights inside several vegetation media, including forests and meadows. The distribution function that best fits the received power was determined to be Weibull, and the evolution of its parameters was studied as the distance between transmitter and receiver increases.