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This chapter leverages propagation modeling to complement the channel-aware resource allocation presented in the previous chapter. In particular, it focuses on the Irregular Terrain Model (ITM), a propagation model used heavily in the industry to model the channel conditions by accounting for the terrain elevation along the propagation path. This chapter leverages standard methods to extract surface refractivity and climate code for precise propagation paths, discusses geodesic algorithms to obtain parameters such as path coordinates and distances on the Earth Ellipsoid needed for ITM propagation modeling which predicts the pathloss. The chapter provides open source code available from the industry bodies in Python to calculate the intermediate variables to run the ITM and obtain its pathloss. The chapter also points to public databases to obtain the terrain elevation data for the United States and points to open source code to process the elevation data and obtain elevations from them.
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Ghorbanzadeh, M., Abdelhadi, A. (2022). Propagation Modeling. In: Practical Channel-Aware Resource Allocation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73632-3_6
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