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A Model for Predicting the Power Delay Profile Characteristics Inside a Room Christopher L. Holloway, Member, IEEE, Michael G. Cotton, Member, IEEE, and Paul McKenna, Member, IEEE Abstract— Multipath effects in indoor wireless communication In this paper, we introduce a simplified model for calculating systems exhibit a characteristic power delay profile (PDP) and the PDP for inside a room. Parameters in this model are can be a detriment to system performance. In this paper, we functions only of the volume of the room, the surface area of present a simplified model for calculating the decay rate of the PDP for propagation within rooms. This simplified model the room, and the amount of energy absorbed into the walls. provides a time-efficient means of predicting system performance. The predictions from this in-room PDP model are compared Predictions of this in-room PDP model are compared to results to numerical results obtained from a FDTD model, as well as obtained from a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) model. to measured data. Additionally, comparisons of the IPDP model to measured data are presented. The rms delay spread is the second central moment of the PDP of a propagation channel and is a measure of the II. BACKGROUND communication link degradation due to multipath. We also show Dating back to the turn of the century, the acoustic com- results of the estimated rms delay spread from this model and show comparisons to the measured data. This IPDP model can be munity has been estimating the decay rates (or reverberation used to investigate the effects of variable room size and properties time) of energy inside acoustic cavities (or