Application of classical two-ray and other models for coverage predictions of rural mobile communications over various zones of India

Abstract

The development of various prediction tools requires the comparison of radio measurements with prediction methods. For a country like India where diverse terrain conditions exist, same prediction method might not hold good in all the regions. To identify the methods suitable to rural zones an attempt is made to compare the measured results with classical two-ray, Hata and ITM methods. Their efficacies have been evaluated in terms of statistical parameters like error distribution functions,etc.