TY - JOUR
T1 - Wireless Performance Evaluation of Building Layouts
T2 - Closed-Form Computation of Figures of Merit
AU - Zhang, Jiliang
AU - Alayón Glazunov, Andrés
AU - Zhang, Jie
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received July 19, 2020; revised November 15, 2020 and February 23, 2021; accepted April 9, 2021. Date of publication April 20, 2021; date of current version July 15, 2021. The research is funded by EUROSTARS Project Build-Wise (11088). The associate editor coordinating the review of this article and approving it for publication was L. Song. (Corresponding author: Jie Zhang.) Jiliang Zhang is with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 3JD, U.K.
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PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - This paper presents a part of our ground-breaking work on evaluation of buildings in terms of wireless friendliness at the building-design stage. The main goal is to devise building design practices that provide for a good performance of wireless networks deployed in buildings. In this paper, the interference gain (IG) and power gain (PG) are defined as two figures of merit (FoM) of the wireless performance of buildings. The FoMs bridge the gap between building design and wireless communications industries. An approach to derive exact closed-form equations for these FoMs is proposed for the first time. The derived analytic expressions facilitate straightforward and more computationally efficient numerical evaluation of the proposed FoMs as compared to Monte Carlo simulations for well-known indoor propagation models. It is shown that the derived closed-form expression can be readily employed to evaluate the impact of building properties, such as the sizes and the aspect ratios (ARs) of rooms, on the wireless performance. The proposed approach sheds light to architects on evaluation and design of wireless-friendly building layouts.
AB - This paper presents a part of our ground-breaking work on evaluation of buildings in terms of wireless friendliness at the building-design stage. The main goal is to devise building design practices that provide for a good performance of wireless networks deployed in buildings. In this paper, the interference gain (IG) and power gain (PG) are defined as two figures of merit (FoM) of the wireless performance of buildings. The FoMs bridge the gap between building design and wireless communications industries. An approach to derive exact closed-form equations for these FoMs is proposed for the first time. The derived analytic expressions facilitate straightforward and more computationally efficient numerical evaluation of the proposed FoMs as compared to Monte Carlo simulations for well-known indoor propagation models. It is shown that the derived closed-form expression can be readily employed to evaluate the impact of building properties, such as the sizes and the aspect ratios (ARs) of rooms, on the wireless performance. The proposed approach sheds light to architects on evaluation and design of wireless-friendly building layouts.
KW - 2023 OA procedure
U2 - 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3074546
DO - 10.1109/TCOMM.2021.3074546
M3 - Article
SN - 0090-6778
VL - 69
SP - 4890
EP - 4906
JO - IEEE Transactions on Communications
JF - IEEE Transactions on Communications
IS - 7
M1 - 9409171
ER -