Research Article

Path Loss Channel Model for Inland River Radio Propagation at 1.4 GHz

Table 2

The RMSE model selection results.

Models Measurements

ITU-R land-path 1% 13.7119 9.3384 7.5479
ITU-R land-path 10% 14.3341 9.3848 9.1265
ITU-R land-path 50% 14.6268 9.4386 9.7505
ITU-R sea-path 1% 21.0225 30.3053 26.2342
ITU-R sea-path 10% 19.6629 28.7838 25.0719
ITU-R sea-path 50% 18.7016 27.7185 24.146
ITU-R mixed-path 1% 14.4477 15.1869 15.0571
ITU-R mixed-path 10% 13.2697 14.1991 13.6386
ITU-R mixed-path 50% 12.5827 13.7837 12.9074
Free space model 30.4055 42.5521 25.4202
Okumura-Hata (suburban) 9.2825 18.8068 1.8525
Okumura-Hata (urban) 7.8181 8.0515 12.9709
REL model 33.3084 44.2648 28.2632
IR model 4.6159 6.3594 1.8310

The smaller RMSE value means better matching degree.