Measurements and Modeling of the Mobile Wireless Channel at 2.4 GHz in Urban and Suburban Areas

The path loss and wideband channel models for urban and suburban scenarios play a crucial role since they provide RF power estimations that allow the wireless network’s optimized design and performance. Although several propagation models can be found in the literature, it is always important to consider the particular characteristics of urbanization in each region where a 5G technology is deployed. In this contribution, we present narrowband and wideband measurements and channel modeling for at 2.4 GHz band in urban and suburban regions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The results include the path loss dependence with distance, the average delay and the statistical distributions of the root mean square (RMS) delay spread, the number of multipath components, and multipath amplitudes.