This paper presents a part of our ground-breaking work on evaluation of buildings in terms of wireless friendliness at the building-design stage. The main goal is to devise building design practices that provide for a good performance of wireless networks deployed in buildings. In this paper, the interference gain (IG) and power gain (PG) are defined as two figures of merit (FoM) of the wireless performance of buildings. The FoMs bridge the gap between building design and wireless communications industries. An approach to derive exact closed-form equations for these FoMs is proposed for the first time. The derived analytic expressions facilitate straightforward and more computationally efficient numerical evaluation of the proposed FoMs as compared to Monte Carlo simulations for well-known indoor propagation models. It is shown that the derived closed-form expression can be readily employed to evaluate the impact of building properties, such as the sizes and the aspect ratios (ARs) of rooms, on the wireless performance. The proposed approach sheds light to architects on evaluation and design of wireless-friendly building layouts.

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建筑布局的无线性能评估：品质因数的封闭式计算


本文介绍了我们在建筑设计阶段评估建筑无线友好性方面的开创性工作的一部分。主要目标是设计建筑设计实践，为建筑物中部署的无线网络提供良好的性能。本文将干扰增益（IG）和功率增益（PG）定义为建筑物无线性能的两个品质因数（FoM）。 FoM 弥合了建筑设计和无线通信行业之间的差距。首次提出了一种为这些 FoM 导出精确闭式方程的方法。与众所周知的室内传播模型的蒙特卡罗模拟相比，导出的解析表达式有助于对所提出的 FoM 进行直接且计算效率更高的数值评估。结果表明，导出的封闭式表达式可以很容易地用于评估建筑属性（例如房间的大小和纵横比（AR））对无线性能的影响。所提出的方法为建筑师评估和设计无线友好的建筑布局提供了思路。