A Study on Path Loss Analysis for GSM Mobile Networks for Urban, Rural and Suburban Regions of Karnataka State

To establish any mobile network system, the basic task is to foresee the coverage of the proposed system in general. Many such different approaches have been developed, over the past, to predict coverage using what are known as propagation models. In this paper, measurement based path loss example and shadowing parameters are applied on path loss models. Here, the measurements are carried out in urban, rural and suburban areas considering non-line-of-sight terrains with low elevation antennas for the transceiver (Tx) and receiver (Rx)[5]. The impact of multipath are more emphasized in the rural context. This causes higher probability of RF signal errors. On the basis of observation and with the help of clutter, we can present models which give better understanding for urban, rural and suburban regions in Karnataka state at 940 MHz GSM frequency[5],[26][13].