| Title |
RF Coverage Design for the Implementation of a Broadband Monitoring Service in the Context of 5G-Enabled Smart Cities |
| ID_Doc |
40761 |
| Authors |
Chrysikos, T; Gourna, S; Skouroliakou, A |
| Title |
RF Coverage Design for the Implementation of a Broadband Monitoring Service in the Context of 5G-Enabled Smart Cities |
| Year |
2023 |
| Published |
Information, 14, 3 |
| DOI |
10.3390/info14030156 |
| Abstract |
As the recent COVID-19 pandemic has aptly demonstrated, emergency scenarios concerning public health and safety may require citizens to remain at home even as patients, potentially in the context of a municipal or national lockdown. Homestay patients may require real-time monitoring, which will offer not only communication but also empirical data and will contribute to developing their personalized electronic health record in knowledge bases. Our paper features an extensive RF coverage design for such a municipally deployed and administered 5G-enabled smart city network, supporting a broadband monitoring service. The antenna deployment for the outdoor urban topology is analytically described (for the downlink channel), and the intrinsic indoor propagation characteristics are considered for the uplink channel. A digital baseband signaling scheme is assumed on the basis of a user-customized health-related monitoring service. Path loss and fading calculations consider the potential worst-case propagation conditions so that the RF coverage will be reliable, leading to a resilient city-wide municipal network. |
| Author Keywords |
5G; smart city; broadband; RF coverage; channel modeling |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000955940500001 |
| WoS Category |
Computer Science, Information Systems |
| Research Area |
Computer Science |
| PDF |
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/3/156/pdf?version=1677737409
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