Effects of fire and fire extinguishing on wireless communications in the 2.4 GHz ISM band

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Lebaric, Jovan E.
Adler, Richard William
Deyannis, Christos
Xifaras, Dimitrios
Date
2000-06Metadata
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The objective of this research was to quantify the effects of fuel fire and the follow-on fire extinguishing actions on
wireless shipboard communications in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. The attenuation of 2.4 - 2.485 GHz signals transmitted
through diesel and heptane fire, water mist created by the fire extinguishing system, and subsequently developed steam,
using directional and non-directional antennas with horizontal and vertical polarization, was measured onboard ex-USS
SHADWELL using a PC-controlled scalar network analyzer. Statistical analysis of the measured data was performed using
a code developed in MATLAB.
Whereas, the attenuation for directional antennas exhibits relatively small variations with time and frequency, for nondirectional
antennas fire and the follow-on fire-extinguishing phases create severe non-stationary frequency selective
fading. Therefore standard communication techniques effective against frequency selective fading (non-stationary but
slowly varying with time) are recommended for use with communication systems intended for shipboard indoors use. Even
in normal conditions, without fire or water mist/steam, we have determined that frequency selective fading would be a
problem for non-directional antennas used in shipboard compartments and thus a system with anti-fading capability should
be considered for shipboard indoors use.
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