ON THE STUDY OF THE COMPARATIVE ERROR BOUNDS OF HATA AND EGLI EMPIRICAL PREDICTION MODELS AT UHF BANDS IN EDO STATE

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 150 - 154, 28.12.2018

Kingsley Ogbeıde

Abstract

The
work presented  is aimed at studying the
comparative error bound of Hata and Egli radio pathloss prediction model to
determine which of the model will better suit television planning in the UHF band
 of Edo state. Signal strength
measurement campaign of selected television stations  in the Ultra high frequency UHF band in Benin
City was conducted across some selected routes using a hand held spectrum
analyzer. The results revealed that for all scenario, both the Egli and Hata
pathloss models  could not be relied on
for effective radio planning in the region as 
both models exceeded the root mean square error  RMSE of 6-7 dB acceptable for the adoption of
existing radio propagation models for the 
planning of new radio communication systems. However the Hata pathloss
model prediction gave a better fit  to
the measured pathloss

Keywords

Pathloss, Signal strength, Egli model, Hata model

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