The Usage of Google-SketchUp as a Pedagogical Tool For Teaching of Signal Path-Loss Models in the Networking Engineeering Program

Abstract

A study of the applicability of the well-known Google SketchUp as to model the signal path-loss in mid-sized urban areas is presented. From the fundamental power equation and the usage of Dirac distributions arriving to nonlinear input/output (I/O) integrals with unknown parameters applied. We use this scheme to optimize antenna deployment in an urban zone containing buildings and delimited areas. The modeling assumes that the Delta function contains a polynomial argument and unknown parameters. The extracted parameters through Monte Carlo steps, would serve to measure the signal intensity degradation over the mid-sized urban areas assisted with the Google-SketchUp version 8.