Near Ground/Floor RF Path Gain Measurements in Indoor Corridors at 2400 MHz for Wireless Sensor Communications

Radio frequency (RF) propagation path gain (PG) measurements were made in typical narrow straight and wide straight indoor corridors at 2400 MHz in a modern multi-storied building utilizing RF equipment and Matlab simulations of Ray-tracing technique, free space model, ITU-R model and full-3D Ray-tracing model of Wireless Insite. Measured PG values showed similar patterns with simulated values in most of the scenarios. The research work presented in this paper is predominately geared towards characterizing radio link for Wireless Sensor Communications/Networks in typical indoor corridor environments