Handbook of Land-Mobile Radio System Coverage »

Garry Hess is a research member of the technical staff in the land-mobile products sector of Motorola, Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Champagne/Urbana. Dr. Hess is the author of Land-Mobile Radio System Engineering, also published by Artech House.

Take the guesswork out of land-mobile radio system coverage prediction with this unique book and software package. Taking you beyond mere descriptions of system aspects such as propagation, modulation, coding, and frequency re-use, it addresses how to use this information to accurately predict, verify, and measure radio system coverage.

If you're responsible for specifying the site layouts of conventional or cellular land-mobile radio systems, you'll find the information in this book compelling. Clearly written and concise, it shows you how to handle both Rayleigh fading and lognormal shadowing in coverage prediction, and how to estimate signal strengths and bit-error probability. You also learn how to implement acceptance procedures that help you determine whether your test plan will be cost efficient.

Supplemented with more than 50 examples of real-world radio system coverage problems, the book also suggests how system coverage procedures will evolve in the coming years. Other well-structured chapters detail...

Expressions for area coverage
Models for median path loss
Relations for the ratio of desired to undesired signal level
How to tabulate gains and losses to establish communications distance

Software Included! Designed for use with the appendices of the book, an accompanying 3.5" diskette contains FORTRAN source code that you can use to solve challenging formulas and propagation models.

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Following an epigrammatic poem adding an unusual dimension to a text directed at engineers, Hess (Motorola, Inc.) concentrates on specifying the site layouts of land-mobile radio system coverage: i.e. the presence of sufficient desired signal power relative to the sum of undesired signal and noise powers to achieve target communication performance levels. The assumptions of relevant mathematical formulas are explained via examples in chapters spanning: the character of land-mobile radio signals, probability distributions, coverage relations, path loss models, noise considerations, link budgets, and automatic RF layout of multisite, frequency-reuse radio systems. Supplementary materials include data tables, coverage probability programs, and a disk with sample results and the source code. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.