Introduction to RF propagation

Аннотация

As wireless systems become more ubiquitous, an understanding of radiofrequency (RF) propagation for the purpose of RF planning becomes increasingly important. Most wireless systems must propagate signals through nonideal environments. Thus it is valuable to be able to provide meaningful characterization of the environmental effects on the signal propagation. Since such environments typically include far too many unknown variables for a deterministic analysis, it is often necessary to use statistical methods for modeling the channel. Such models include computation of a mean or median path loss and then a probabilistic model of the additional attenuation that is likely to occur.