Using geographical features to reduce in-field propagation experimentation

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9913146
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15399940

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The present invention includes an apparatus and method for determining cell coverage in a region with reduced in-field propagation measurements comprising: obtaining geographical features of the region; predicting the number of measurements required to accurately characterize its path loss; determining the path loss prediction accuracy of wardriving and crowdsourcing by oversampling a suburban and a downtown region from cell measurements that comprise signal strength and global positioning system coordinates; and using statistical learning to build a relationship between these geographical features and the measurements required, thereby reducing the number of measurements needed to determine path loss accuracy.

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SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITYP O BOX 750132 DALLAS TX 75275-0132

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Camp, Joseph Dallas, US 6 69
Rajan, Dinesh Dallas, US 7 85
Tonnemacher, Matthew Dallas, US 11 20

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