Environmental safety standards and WLAN indoor propagation

In this paper, the indoor propagation of an Access Point (AP) operating at frequency of 2.4 GHz is studied in the building of the Communication Engineering Department/University of Mosul as a case study for environmental fields. The power density in the corridor of the 2
^nd
floor is measured, simulated and compared with the available electromagnetic safety standards such as ICNIRP, FCC, EUROPEAN, and Salzburg standards. The measurements are carried out using a Laptop with Wifihopper software and the results obtained are compared with simulated results obtained using EFC-400TC software package version (2009) for high frequency. The measurements are carried using an adjustable height of a hand-made trolley carrying the laptop at the center of 30×30cm square. A comparison between the measured and simulated results for this case study is made and evaluated using correlation coefficient factor as a measure of evaluation. All results are compared with the available electromagnetic safety standards such as ICNIRP, FCC, EUROPEAN, and Salzburg standards.