The Effective Radiation Pattern Concept for Realistic Performance Estimation of LTE Wireless Systems

Table 1

Simulation setup.

Network parameters
Cell radius	0.5 Km
Frequency	2 GHz
Tiers	1
RN distance from BS	0.4 Km
Base station parameters
BS height	25 m
BS antenna gain (omni)	8 dBi
BS transmit power	46 dBm
Relay node parameters
RN height	5 m
RN antenna gain (omni)	5 dBi
RN transmit power	30 dBm
Channel models (Winner II, Table 4.4 in [4])
BS→user: scenario C2 NLOS, σ = 8 dB
RNSN→user: scenario B1 LOS with ℎBS = ℎRN = 5 m,; σ = 3 dB
RNInterf→user: scenario B1 NLOS with ℎBS = ℎRN = 5 m; 𝑑LOS = 150 m, σ = 4 dB
Bad urban scenarios (Winner II, Tables 4–9 in [4])
AS at BS	17°
AS at RN	33°