Volume 7 Issue 4 ( December 2020 )

Pages_500-509

Use of RSM Technology for the Optimization of Received Signal Strength for LTE Signals Under the Influence of Varying Atmospheric Conditions

Shilpa Choudhary, Abhishek Sharma, Shradha Gupta, Hemant Purohit, Smriti Sachan

[ABSTRACT ]

In the field of telecommunication, network planning plays an important role to maximize the system performance and it is very much related to received signal strength (RSS). While transmitting signal from the transmitter to the receiver, signal has to face so many obstacles like varying environment conditions, high-rise buildings, dense forests etc. Signal strength gets affected with varying distance between the transmitter and receiver too. So for efficient network planning, information about the effect of all these parameters on received signal strength (RSS) should be known to us. So this study aimed to investigate the variation in Received Signal Strength for LTE signal (RSSLTE) with respect to the variation of four input parameters i.e. Relative humidity (25 % to 75 %), Temperature (12 °C to 48 °C), Air quality index for Particulate Matter 2.5 (50 to 500) and Distance from the base station (98 m to 300 m). Optimization of received signal strength was also carried out by using response surface methodology. Optimum value of received Signal Strength for LTE signal (RSSLTE) was found to be -87.0393 dBm when the input parameters i.e. Temperature, Relative Humidity, Air Quality Index and Distance from Base Station were 13.10 °C, 31.30 %, 52.10 and 98 m respectively.

Keywords: Received signal strength; Response surface methodology; LTE; Optimization.