Tag: Radio
Deep Coverage in Mobile Networks UMTS-Femtocells explained
von Christoph K am Okt.03, 2009, in Grundlagen, In English
Recently I have read some articles (this, this one and many more) about how mini base stations can be used to set-up femtocells or picocells at home or in offices for better signal quality. I came across the term “deep coverage” in every article. It is not exactly clear what “deep coverage” has to do with signal quality. I explain it for you:
The characteristics of wireless networks include frequency dependent fading, shadowing, reflection at large obstacles, refraction depending on the density of the medium, scattering at small objects, and diffraction at edges. The effect of multipath propagation can cause jitter when the radio signal reaches the receiver by two or more paths at different times. These effects occur in macrocells (multiple km
