Wireless Personal Communications

, Volume 3, Issue 4, pp 365–388 | Cite as

Predicted HIPERLAN coverage and Outage performance at 5.2 and 17 GHz using indoor 3-D ray-tracing techniques

  • A. R. Nix
  • G. E. Athanasiadou
  • J. P. McGeehan
Article

Abstract

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has recently defined a European standard for High Performance Radio LANs. This standard, known as HIPERLAN, has dedicated spectrum in both the 5 GHz and 17 GHz frequency bands. The system has been designed as an indoor wired-line replacement offering raw data rates in excess of 20 Mb/s.

In this paper, simulated propagation data at 5.2 GHz and 17 GHz has been generated for a typical HIPERLAN environment. The analysis was performed using an indoor three dimensional ‘ray-tracing’ algorithm developed for site specific single floor environments. The model is capable of predicting narrowband (power) and wideband (time dispersion) characteristics even in non-line-of-sight locations.

Using this propagation information, the design of a suitable equaliser and the expected coverage of a HIPERLAN node is investigated for a particular indoor location. Emphasis has been placed on the need to develop low cost and robust receiver designs that are compatible with the design goal of a small and low power terminal.

Key words

HIPERLAN ray tracing equalisation propagation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • A. R. Nix
    • 1
  • G. E. Athanasiadou
    • 1
  • J. P. McGeehan
    • 1
  1. 1.Centre for Communications Research Queen's BuildingUniversity of BristolBristolU.K.

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