Research Article

Enhancing Cellular Coverage Quality by Virtual Access Point and Wireless Power Transfer

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

SymbolDescriptionValue

Maximum transmitting power for the MBS40 dBm
Maximum transmitting power for UEs, including MTRs and VAPs26 dBm
Path loss at the reference distance30 dB
Body shadowing loss margin15 dB
Path loss exponent2.3
Power conversion efficiency factor0.8
Frame length100 µs
Traffic unit price4.5 cents/Mbit
Energy unit price9 cents/KWH
Transmission bandwidth for each UE1 MHz
Transmission bandwidth for ETRs6 MHz
Transmission bandwidth for VAPs6 MHz