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Basic Concepts about Radio Mobile

Radio Mobile Application Objectives
The Radio Mobile application is a tool used to predict the performance of a radio system It uses digital terrain elevation data for extraction of path profile between emitter and receiver This data is added to system, y environmental and statistical p parameters to feed the Irregular g Terrain Model (ITS) radio propagation model

Irregular Terrain Model (ITS)

The ITS model of radio propagation for frequencies between 20 MHz and 20 GHz (the Longley-Rice model) is a general purpose model used in many applications The model, which is based on electromagnetic theory and on statistical analyses of both terrain features and radio measurements, predicts the median attenuation of a radio signal as a function of distance and the variability of the signal in time and in space

Main Outputs
Radio link: p point-to-point p analysis y Coverage maps: received power, signal or field (elevation data can be used to produce altimetry maps in background, which can be merged with other maps from various sources, adding populated places, roads and other geographical features to facilitate location in the area)

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Basic Concepts about Radio Mobile

Radio Mobile Objects Network - basic characteristics relevant for the model
Frequency band Polarization Mode of variability y Climate Transmit power Receiver threshold Line losses Antenna characteristics (radiation pattern, pattern gains) Antenna heights Membership

System - transmitter / receiver characteristics

Units - transmitter / receiver locations

Latitude Longitude Elevation

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Projeto de Sistemas de Telecomunicaes

Units a are member rs of system ms in each n network

Unit ts are memb bers of netw works

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Basic Concepts about Radio Mobile

Radio Link Main Inputs
Transmitter Unit Receiver Unit Network System Free Space Obstruction Terrain (urban, forest) Statistics Path Loss E field Rx Signal Level Rx Power Level Rx Relative to sensitivity

Model calculations

Main Outputs

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Basic Concepts about Radio Mobile

Radio Coverage - Combined Cartesian Main Inputs
Fixed Units Mobile Unit Signal g Range g Save raster data Draw size (pix)

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Basic Concepts about Radio Mobile

Radio Coverage - Combined Cartesian Outputs
Coverage Geographic features

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Projeto de Sistemas de Telecomunicaes

Basic Concepts about Radio Mobile

Radio Coverage - Combined Cartesian Outputs
Raster data Range = 20 log10(Vmax / Vmin) Rx(dB) = 20 log10(V / Vmin)

Range Mobile unit Fixed unit Latitude 41.49318 41.49318 41.49318 41.49318 41.49318 41 49318 41.49318 41.49318 41.49318 41.49318

48.0dB 1 Mobile Terminal 4 Bornes Longitude -007.43124 -007.42405 -007.41685 -007.40965 -007.40245 -007 007.39526 39526 -007.38806 -007.38086 -007.37367

00.00000 41 43422 41.43422 Rx(dB) 038.1 037.2 056.5 038.3 056.9 042 9 042.9 032.1 046.8 042.3

000.00000 -007 00629 -007.00629 Best unit 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

0.0 1191 4 1191.4

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Projeto de Sistemas de Telecomunicaes