Path loss simulation of an infrared optical wireless system for aircraft

  • Authors:

  • Svilen Dimitrov;Raed Mesleh;Harald Haas;Mario Cappitelli;Michael Olbert;Erhard Bassow

  • Affiliations:

  • Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany and EADS Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, Germany;Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany and Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;EADS Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, Germany;EADS Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, Germany;Airbus Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, the infrared optical wireless path loss inside an aircraft cabin is estimated. To this end, a Monte Carlo ray-tracing (MCRT) simulation is performed in a geometric computer-aided design (CAD) cabin model. Position, azimuth (AZ), elevation (EL) and field of view (FOV) properties of transmitters and receivers are defined. Key path loss parameters such as the path loss exponent and the standard deviation of the shadowing component are determined for particular line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) cases. A LOS path loss exponent of 1.92 and a shadowing standard deviation of 0.81dB are obtained. In NLOS conditions, however, the path loss exponent varies depending on the nature of the particular NLOS case considered. The presented scenarios yield NLOS path loss exponent values of 2.26 and 1.28, and shadowing standard deviation values of 1.27dB and 0.7dB, respectively.