Radio Channel Measurements and Propagation Prediction for Wireless Communications
- Research Focus
- Graduate Students
- Recent Papers
- Description of Research
- Current Research Ideas
- Useful References
Research Focus
Our research group has a long and proven track record of planning, conducting, and building RF measurement equipment for state-of-the-art radio propagation measurements over a vast range of frequencies. Measurements have been made from 400 MHz through 67 GHz, ranging from narrowband signal strength data collection, to measuring and modeling building penetration loss, wide band multipath characteristics, and network throughput measurements for Wireless LAN and PAN networks. Rappaport's RF Laboratory is stocked with the equipment needed to rapidly build and deploy high quality propagation measurement systems for a wide range of physical environments. Please contact us with your RF propagation measurment needs.
Graduate students working with Prof. Rappaport
James Murdock
Some Recent Papers
C. Na, J.K. Chen, T.S. Rappaport, "Measured Traffic Statistics and Throughput of IEE 802.11b Public WLAN Hotspots with Three Different Applications," published, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 11, pp. 3296-3305, November 2006.
C.R. Anderson, T.S. Rappaport, "In-Building Wideband Partition Loss Measurements at 2.5 and 60 Ghz," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 922-928, May 2004.
G.D. Durgin, V. Kukshya, and T.S. Rappaport, "Wideband Measurements of Angle and Delay Dispersion for Outdoor and Indoor Peer-to-Peer Radio Channels at 1920 MHz," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 936-944, May 2003.
H. Xu, V. Kukshya, T.S. Rappaport, "Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of 60 GHz Indoor Channels," published, IEEE Journal on Sel. Areas in Comm., Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 620-630, April 2002.
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Description of Research
Students work closely with sponsors to develop custom wireless measurement systems of all types. See some of our recent papers, and those published over the past 20 years, to see some examples of activity in this area.
Some of Our Current Research Ideas
Call us or come visit our laboratory to discuss.!
Some Useful References
T.S. Rappaport, "Wireless Communications, Principles and Practice," Pearson Prentice-Hall, c. 2002.
