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A Comparison Study on the Path Loss Estimation in Censoring and Truncation Environments

센서링과 절단 환경에서의 경로 손실 추정 방법에 대한 비교 연구

  • Lee, Kyung-gyu (Korea University Graduate School of Computer and Information Technology) ;
  • Oh, Seong-jun (Korea University Graduate School of Information Security)
  • Received : 2016.10.18
  • Accepted : 2017.01.31
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

The millimeter wave band is in the extremely high frequency band whose frequency and wavelength are 30-300GHz and 10-1mm respectively. When the obstacles block the propagation path which is not Line-of-Sight (LoS), due to a high propagation loss, it is hard to receive a signal in the millimeter wave band. Therefore When the path loss is measured in the millimeter wave band, the signal which is not distinguished from the noise is observed. Consequently, the path loss data which is limited in certain value is observed in the high propagation loss environment. If the original least square is implemented without taking the limitation of certain value into account, the path loss exponent may be underestimated. In this paper, the performance of Tobit Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Heckman Two-stage Model and Truncation Regression Model which can estimate properly in the censoring or truncated environments are compared.

밀리미터파 대역은 주파수가 30GHz-300GHz이고, 파장이 10mm-1mm인 EHF (Extremely High Frequency) 대역이다. 밀리미터파 대역에서는 장애물이 있는 경우 전파 감쇠가 심하기 때문에 Line-of-Sight (LoS)가 아닌 경우 신호가 잘 잡히지 않는다. 그렇기 때문에 밀리미터파 대역에서 신호 감쇠 측정을 할 경우에 측정 장비가 noise와 구별할 수 없는 신호들이 관찰된다. 이와 같이 감쇠가 심한 환경에서 신호 감쇠 data를 보면 특정한 값에서 제한을 받는 것이 관찰된다. 특정한 값에서 제한 받는 것을 그대로 두고 일반적인 Least square로 추정을 하는 경우에는 감쇠 exponent를 과소평가 할 수도 있다. 본 논문에서는 특정한 값에서 제한을 받아도 정확한 추정이 가능한 Tobit Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Heckman Two-stage Model 그리고 Truncation Regression model의 성능 비교를 하였다.

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