Determination and Analysis of Signal Strength/Path-Loss Exponent

In wireless communication, the path loss exponent has a strong impact on the quality of links or signal, and hence, there are needs to accurately estimate the efficient design and operation of wireless network. Many research efforts have been devoted to modeling the path loss propagation effects for narrowband communication by using different methods ranging from analytical models, semi-empirical models, to empirical models. Telecommunication industries today have a major problem which is losses that occur during transmission of signals from the transmitter to the receiver. In this thesis, the empirical method was adopted though it is so stressful because it involves the measurement of large data, with the help of a software called RF signal tracker which was installed in a mobile phone called Samsung galaxy pocket, this software gave us the distance to site and the signal strength level of the network provider at a particular distance. A fixed distance was taken from the base station to the receiver and in this research work a particular fixed distance was taken as 100m from the base station which was represented as d0 and a variable distance which was represented as this.