3.2 Path Loss Model
Considering an industrial environment where the channel quality may vary due to the positioning of
nodes, as well as the distance from other nodes and the GW, the numerical evaluation will be
performed as a function of SNR. In order to estimate how the SNR varies between the hops, a path
loss model, which approximates the effects of the signal propagating through the wireless channel, is
used. Here, we consider the path loss model described in Section 2.3. Given the received signal
power (
) after transmitting over a short hop
, the received signal power over the longer hops
or
can, by using equation (2.1), be expressed as
(
)
(3.1)
where
is the relative hop distance over
with respect to
, that is,
, and
is the
distance over hop
. For simplicity, the constants ,
, and the path loss exponent, , are assumed
to be the same for all hops. Equation (3.1) can furthermore be expressed in terms of signal-to-noise
ratios as
(
)
(3.2)
where
is the SNR at node
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