Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Wataru Yamada

Yasushi Takatori

Takatsune Moriyama

Nobuaki Kuno

Mitsuki Nakamura

Provided are: an extraction unit that, based on input information from an external source, extracts position information regarding a transmitting station and a receiving station and the frequency of radio waves transmitted by the transmitting station; a calculation unit that calculates the three-dimensional distance between the transmitting station and the receiving station and the free space loss of radio waves based on the position information and the frequency; a processing unit that performs processing for, with use of a two-dimensional image of a region that includes the transmitting station and the receiving station, extracting the edges of structures that reflect radio waves in the two-dimensional image; a generation unit that generates input data for use in machine learning, based on the position information, the three-dimensional distance, the free space loss, and the edge; and a learning unit that performs machine learning to estimate the propagation characteristics of radio waves between the transmitting station and the receiving station with use of the input data generated by the generation unit.

Propagation characteristic estimation device, propagation characteristic estimation method, and propagation characteristic estimation program

The following are executed: received power acquisition processing; propagation loss calculation processing of calculating propagation losses between the transmitter and the receiver, based on received power; median processing of calculating a median of a plurality of the propagation losses calculated in the propagation loss calculation processing in a predetermined time period, and outputting the median as propagation losses to be used for subsequent processing; loss peak acquisition processing of acquiring a maximum value of the propagation losses output in the median processing; distance calculation processing of calculating a distance between the transmitter or the receiver and blocking entities, at least based on the maximum value, heights of antennas, and a wavelength of the radio communication; and congestion degree calculation processing of estimating a congestion degree by calculating the number of the blocking entities in chronological order, based on the distance, integrating the number for a predetermined time period, and thereby calculating the number of the blocking entities per unit area.

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Wataru Yamada