Abstract
Abstract—Various Construction materials cause significant losses when
subjected to wireless signals along the path of propagation. A change in
the signal strength, losses and user experience occur as a result of the
complex composition of the materials. This paper is aimed to find out
how 2G (1800MHz) signal is affected when subjected to an enclosure
dimension (0.24mx0.20mx0.16m), made of 3 species of timber namely;
Chlorophoral excels (Iroko), Afzelia Africans (Apa) and Gosswei
Lerodendrin balsamic ferum (Agba); a reflective glass and solid
reinforced concrete. This paper study focused on, Received Signal
Strength (RSS), Upload and Download speed (Mbps) and Jitter (ms). The
steps taken involve finding the penetration loss from the RSS with their
respective data representation and drawing fact from the represented
data. The result of this work presented that, material C has
46.1%×〖10〗^(-2) increase in indoor signal strength, material E has
insignificant change in indoor signal strength, material D, B and A has
1.0%×〖10〗^(-2) decrease, 10.2%×〖10〗^(-2) increase and
16.4%×〖10〗^(-2) increase respectively in indoor received signal
strength. The result from QOS parameter– Jitter(ms) are compared for
both outdoor and indoor, this relatively showed that material B, C and E
will provide improved experience to the user. Index Terms—RSS, Jitter,
Penetration Loss, Upload speed, Download speed, Packet Loss.