Evaluation of received signal strength indicator (RSSI) for propagation path loss models in mobile WiMAX / Mohammad Azmir Abdul Aziz

The coverage and performance of any wireless system is closely related to the propagation losses in wireless environment. This study presents an evaluation of Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) for mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) in urban, suburban and rural terrain profiles. MATLAB R2008b is used to simulate the environment for different propagation path loss models which were Stanford University Interim (SUI), COST-231 Hata and Electronic Communication Committee (ECC-33). Results showed that SUI model and COST-231 Hata model gave better RSSI performance than ECC-33 model on all considered terrains.