Coverage Planning Criteria

Conclusions

This chapter examined coverage planning criteria. First, location probability and slow fading margins were discussed. Usually coverage probability is expressed with location probability; a way to improve location probability is to introduce a margin that reduces cell range but at the same time improves the average field strength over the cell area. This margin is called –slow fading— because deviation of field strength is –slow.— Second, indoor and in-car coverage were discussed and building penetration loss was introduced. Finally, the coverage planning thresholds were determined. Table 4.4 gathers the topics of the coverage planning criteria.