Indoor propagation modelling at microwave frequencies in a server environment

Abstract: The Link¨oping site is the first of Ericsson’s three information and communication technology centres. This facility will house the company’s complete portfolio and use the latest cloud technology in order to enable the research and development engineers to more efficiently test and develop new technologies. In the test lab environment there is a high capacity microwave telecommunication system called MINI-LINK. These systems operate at much higher frequencies than more traditional telecommunication systems. In the test lab these systems are communicating with a cable interface instead of its intended air interface. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the potential leakage of this system in the test lab environment. The evaluation of the leakage in the test lab is done by developing an empirical path loss model for the desired frequencies used by the equipment in the test lab. This model is later implemented in a leakage simulation tool designed in Matlab, which simulates and displays the leakage power in a 2D plane. This report mainly focuses on the process of determining the constants and the implementation of the path loss model.