Estimation of wall penetration loss for indoor WLAN systems

Indoor propagation study for WLAN system operating at 2.452 GHz was performed at university building. Theoretical analysis, and simulation results, obtained from the Insite software package, as well as experimental measurements were performed to estimate propagation exponent and wall penetration loss. The experimental data have validated the simulation results. The estimated exponents were found between 1.45-2.2, and average wall penetration loss of about 3.5 dB.