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of the wireless communication systems depends on the received power at one meter distance. In this paper, the
radio wave transmission path between the transmitter linear regression method is used to estimate the value
and the receiver. The constructed materials, building of path loss exponent (n).
designs, furniture and building parameters are also
affected the wireless performance while radio wave
propagation takes place in indoor environment. These ∑m
i=1 {(PLm(di )-PLm(di )) (xi -x̅)}
̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅̅
n= 2
i
(2)
∑m
i=1 (xi -x̅)
materials or indoor obstacles can cause multipath i
Where n is the path loss exponent which is calculated All experiments are conducted at the main building of
using linear regression method, d is the distance Mandalay Technological University, the Republic of the
between the transmitter and receiver and A is the Union of Myanmar. The type of construction material of
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the building is concrete type floors, brick walls and glass different days. The experimental set up of the signal
windows with wood frame doors. There are three generator and test receiver used in experiments is
corridors namely corridor 1, corridor 2 and corridor 3 on described in Table 1.
the first floor. All doors and windows are closed and
Table 1. Experimental Parameters
people are not allowed to pass in this experimental
region while conducting experiments. The dimension of Parameter Name Parameter Values
main building of MTU is 90 m × 67 m and the distance
between two floors is 4 m. There is free space out door Frequency 2.4 GHz
composed at the middle of the building as shown in Transmitter height 0.6 m
Figure 1.
Receiver height 0.6 m
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RSSI
Figure 3 to 8. Analysis of experimental data, analysis of
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can be performed in this section.
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Received Signal strength (RSSI)
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Distance(m)
Figure 10.Path Loss Comparison for Corridor 2
Figure 8.Comparison of Theoretical & Experimental
RSSI values for Corridor 3
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And then for corridor 2, there is only one highest path & Technology IJARCET (2013), Volume. 2, No. 4, pp.
loss at 8.74 dB at 26 m because this point has largest 1304-1308, April, 2013.
different RSSI values between theoretical and
[3] PTZ.Tun, “Characterization of Prediction and
experimental. For the corridor 3, it has too much path Enhancement of Indoor Propagation Model with 2.4
loss according to the analysis of RSSI values in above. GHz”, International Journal of Scientific Engineering and
Technology Research IJSETR (2014), Volume 3, No. 16,
5. System Limitation and Further Extension
pp.3328-3332, July, 2014.
There are some limitations to use signal model in all
[4]. WW.Aung, PTZ.Tun, “Analysis of Received Signal
types of indoor radio wave propagation. The path loss
Strength Indicator (RSSI) for Indoor WLAN”, 10th
exponent (n) is calculated using linear regression Conference on Science and Engineering (NCSE 2017),
equation to obtain the definite value. So the value of Mandalay Technological University, Myanmar, 29-30
path loss exponent can vary depending on building June, 2017.
layout. Estimating the path loss within a given real-world
terrain/geography is a hard problem, and there are no [5]. PTZ.Tun, “Indoor Path Loss Prediction by Analyzing
Propagation Models”, Annual University Journal
easy solutions. It is impacted, among other things, by
Innovative Research and Products, December 2018.
the height of the transmitter and receiver antennas,
whether there is line-of-sight (LOS) or non-line-of-sight
(NLOS) and any type of construction, and if so, the type
of materials used in that construction, the height of the
buildings, their distance, etc.
6.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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