In Building Penetration Loss in Commercial and Residential Building Structures in Palestine

Abstract

Mobile users may experience many problems when using their handsets inside buildings. This is due to lack of adequate in building coverage which would result into bad quality calls, drop calls, interference noise, to say the few. These are serious problems that would result into customer dissatisfaction and even customer churn for the operator. Customer churn due to lack of in building coverage constitutes 40%,[17] of the reasons for leaving an operator, in general, in a country such as the USA, where several giant operators compete with each other. The problem becomes even more serious when operators provide discounted call prices in the evening hours, after work hours, when callers would benefit from the offered discounts to call from their homes. This project will address the problem to try to come out with guidelines for the operators to adapt their in building penetration loss values in their developed link budgets. this project will generate a policy for predicting the signal strength in buildings depending on calculating the losses of signal power while it penetrates the outer and inner building walls, so we expect by the end of this project to come up with a prediction formula for indoor coverage.