Coverage Prediction of Cellular MC-CDMA Using a Deterministic Propagation Model
Filippo Giannetti, Paolo Nepa, Nunzio Aldo D'Andrea, Giuliano Manara · CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) · 2005
In this paper cell coverage prediction for a MC-CDMA cellular system is obtained by using an integrated simulation environment developed at the University of Pisa. The simulation environment consists of a propagation tool, developed by the Applied Electromagnetics Research Group, plus a physical layer simulator of MC-CDMA radio links, developed by the Communication System Research Group. The propagation tool features a fully 3D deterministic model based on an inverse ray tracing algorithm, wherein at every observation point the electromagnetic field is given by the vectorial sum of several ray contributions. The multipath propagation parameters are subsequently handled to the transmission physical layer simulator which derives BER performance at the various locations within the cell area, providing accurate radio coverage predictions.