Integrated wireless propagation models

A. About the authors -- B. Preface -- C. Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction to modeling mobile signals in wireless communications -- Why write this book? -- Differences between free space communications and mobile communications in propagation -- Treatment of mobile signals -- History of developing the lee model -- Basic system operations -- Mobile radio signal: fading signal -- Co-channel interference created from the frequency reuse scheme -- Propagation fading models -- Three basic propagation mechanisms -- Applications of the prediction models -- Summary -- References -- Additional references -- 2. Macrocell prediction models - part 1: area-to-area models -- Free space loss -- Plane earth model -- Young model -- Bullington monograms -- Egli model - one of the clutter factor models -- The jrc method -- Terrain-integrated rough-earth model -- Carey model -- Ccir model -- Blomquist-ladell and edwards-durkin models -- Ibrahim-parsons model -- Okumara-hata and the cost 231 hata models -- Walfisch-bertoni model -- Ikegami model -- Walfisch-ikegami model -- Flat-edge model -- Itu model -- On-body model -- Summary -- References -- 3. Macrocell prediction models - part 2: point-to-point models -- The lee model -- Fine-tuning the lee model -- Enhanced lee macrocell prediction model -- Longley-rice model -- Summary -- References -- 4. Microcell prediction models -- Introduction -- The basic lee microcell prediction model -- Integration of the microcell prediction model and the macrocell prediction model -- Tuning the model for a particular area -- Other microcell prediction models -- Summary -- References -- 5. In-building (picocell) prediction models -- Introduction -- The lee in-building prediction model -- Enhanced lee in-building model -- Empirical path-loss models -- Itu model -- Physical models - application of geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD) -- Summary and conclusions -- References -- 6. The lee comprehensive model - integration of the three lee models -- Introduction -- Integrating the three lee models -- System design aspects using different prediction models -- User's menu of the lee comprehensive model -- How to use prediction tools -- How to plan and design a good wireless system -- Propagation prediction on different transmission media -- Summary and conclusions -- References

Includes integrated solutions for managing wireless network coverage, capacity, and costs. This book presents accurate, efficient propagation prediction models to meet the growing demands of next-generation wireless networks. It discusses popular prediction models and provides details on the Lee macrocell, microcell, and in-building models