TY - GEN
T1 - A Study on the Radio Coverage in Underground Stations of the New Copenhagen Metro System
AU - Millan, Maria del Carmen de la O
AU - Sørensen, Troels Bundgaard
AU - Mikkelsen, Niels Michael
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In connection with the extension of the Copenhagen Metro system, architects and wireless operators met early in the design phase to plan the radio coverage inside the public areas of the metro transport system. Based on common best practice, an initial design for the antenna installations, and hence radio coverage, was proposed for a distributed antenna system in each of two distinctly different types of underground stations. In this paper, we describe the considerations for the design, and specifically the modelling and analysis of the underground stations by way of a commercial ray-tracing tool. Radio coverage results are given for different designs, including different number and types of antennas, their configuration and placement, as well as the dependency on frequency and construction materials and presence of trains on the station platforms. In a practical case like this, compromises between stakeholders impact to the design and in some cases rule out options with better, more uniform, radio coverage. Also, given the constraints of the problem, common best practice leads to a conservative design. It shows a good margin for uncertainties and unaccounted propagation phenomena by an analytical comparison.
AB - In connection with the extension of the Copenhagen Metro system, architects and wireless operators met early in the design phase to plan the radio coverage inside the public areas of the metro transport system. Based on common best practice, an initial design for the antenna installations, and hence radio coverage, was proposed for a distributed antenna system in each of two distinctly different types of underground stations. In this paper, we describe the considerations for the design, and specifically the modelling and analysis of the underground stations by way of a commercial ray-tracing tool. Radio coverage results are given for different designs, including different number and types of antennas, their configuration and placement, as well as the dependency on frequency and construction materials and presence of trains on the station platforms. In a practical case like this, compromises between stakeholders impact to the design and in some cases rule out options with better, more uniform, radio coverage. Also, given the constraints of the problem, common best practice leads to a conservative design. It shows a good margin for uncertainties and unaccounted propagation phenomena by an analytical comparison.
KW - metro transport system
KW - underground station
KW - simulcast coverage
KW - distributed antenna system
KW - ray tracing
U2 - 10.1145/2512840.2512854
DO - 10.1145/2512840.2512854
M3 - Article in proceeding
SN - 978-1-4503-2371-0
T3 - A C M. S I G S I M International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. Proceedings
SP - 99
EP - 106
BT - Proceedings of the 8th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - ACM International Workshop on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, 2013
Y2 - 3 November 2013 through 8 November 2013
ER -