WinProp is a complete suite of tools in the domain of wireless propagation and radio network planning. With applications
ranging from satellite to terrestrial, from rural via urban to indoor radio links, WinProp’s innovative wave propagation models combine accuracy with short computation time.
View the typical workflows when working with propagation simulations in specific scenarios, how to add a network planning
to a propagation simulation, include a receiver pattern, set up a time-variant scenario, include multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) at both the base station and the mobile station, connectivity analysis of sensor networks and optimization.
Use AMan to generate, edit and analyze a single antenna. Superimpose multiple antennas radiating similar signals to determine
the actual antenna pattern while taking into consideration the local environment.
Predict path loss between transmitter and receiver with ProMan. Perform network planning including the wireless standards (the air interfaces) and including multiple transmitters/receivers
(multiple base stations).
Additional channel characteristics like channel impulse responses, spatial channel impulse responses and angular profiles
can be displayed for user-defined locations in separate graphs.
The most important criterion to measure the performance of a prediction model is the accuracy. The accuracy of a prediction
models can be analyzed by comparing simulation results with measurements.
The results for human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) are displayed
in the tree, below the Propagation and Network results.
WinProp includes empirical and semi-empirical models (calibration with measurements possible), rigorous 3D ray-tracing models
as well as the unique dominant path model (DPM).
In WinProp various air interfaces and applications are pre-defined: broadcasting, cellular, wireless access, WiFi, sensor networks,
ICNIRP and EM compliance.
The results for human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) are displayed
in the tree, below the Propagation and Network results.
The results for human exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) and for
electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) are displayed in the tree, below the
Propagation and Network
results.
Both the EMF results and the EMC results are governed by the specifications provided in
the .emc file, which can be defined at Data > EMC Specification, see Figure 2.
Figure 2 is for both EMF (human
exposure) and EMC. It enables you to specify frequency-dependent exposure limits
according to multiple standards and multiple frequency bands.
The EMF results show if and where human-exposure limits are exceeded, see Figure 3.
The EMC results show the location-dependent field strengths. Fields from multiple
antennas are combined in principle according to
(1)
with one exception. If the strongest two or three signals
at a given location, received from the same transmitter site, differ by less than 150
MHz in frequency, then the signals are added according to under the sign in order to account for the possibility that they
might be almost in phase.