Verifying Received Power Predictions of Wireless InSite Software in Indoor Environments at WLAN Frequencies
Keywords:
FDTD, indoor propagation, ray lanching techniques, ray tracing, received signal strength, WLANAbstract
This paper introduces a study on verifying received power at WLAN frequencies in indoor environments, Wireless InSite is a popular electromagnetic ray-tracing software which is widely used for predicting channel behaviour in indoor and outdoor environments. The study compares software-generated data with measurements collected through 3rd floor Chesham Building, University of Bradford, at WLAN frequencies, the paper also investigates the effect of changing settings on results accuracy and computational time, and finally, the paper presents a comparison between simulation results with empirical models.
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