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Recommendation ITU-R P.1411-10 provides guidance on outdoor short-range propagation over the path lengths below about 1 km and over the frequency range 300 MHz to 100 GHz. For typical scenarios in urban and suburban areas, three closed-form algorithms for site-general models are defined in this Recommendation and implemented in SEAMCAT:

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The recommended values for LoS and NLoS situations to be used for below-rooftop propagation in urban and suburban environments are provided in Table 1.
TABLE 4

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Table 1: Basic transmission loss coefficients for ITU-R P.1411-10 §4.1.1

Frequency (GHz)

Distance (m)

Environment

LoS/ NloS

α

β

γ

σ

0.8-73

5-660

Urban high-rise, Urban low-rise/Suburban

LoS

2.12

29.2

2.11

5.06

0.8-38

30-715

Urban high-rise

NloS

4.00

10.2

2.36

7.6

10-73

30-250

Urban low-rise/Suburban

NloS

5.06

-4.68

2.02

9.33

0.8-73

30-170

Residential

NloS

3.01

18.8

2.07

3.07

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See description of the model ITU-R P.1411-9 §4.3.1


 SEAMCAT Specific Implementation

The site-general propagation models from §4.1.1 and §4.2.1 are valid only for a given range of Tx-Rx 3D distances ,  If the Tx-Rx 3D distances in the simulation scenario are outside this range, SEAMCAT will inform the user about that in a consistency check before the simulation starts. The simulations can still be run and the values of the basic transmission loss will be computed using the formulas from Recommendation ITU-R P.1411 even for distances that are outside the range of validity.

A special care needs to be taken for distances  as they can result in non-physical values of the basic transmission loss that can be smaller than free-space loss, or even be negative. In that particular case, the median values of the basic transmission loss are capped from below by the free space loss as follows:


Compute PL=PL_1411
if d<d_min:

Compute PL_FreeSpace
PL=max⁡〖(PL,〗  PL_FreeSpace)


Input parameters

The input parameters for the three site-general propagation models from ITU-R P.1411-10 are shown in SEAMCAT GUI in Figure 2 and defined in Table 4.



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Figure 2: GUI of the ITU-R P.1411-10 Site-General Models.



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Table 4: ITU-R P.1411-10 Site-General Models

Description

Symbol

Type

Unit

Comments

Variations

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B

-

Variation in basic transmission loss (applicable to models §4.1.1 and §4.2.1)

Local environment

-

-

-

Environment of the propagation: Suburban, Urban, Dense Urban, Urban/High-rise, Urban/Low-rise, Residential, LoS, NLoS

Location percentage

-

S

%

Percentage of locations: between 0% and 100 % (applicable to model §4.3.1)

LoS/NLoS transition width

-

S

m

Average street width: typical value is 20 m (applicable to model §4.3.1)

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