Use of a Statistical Measurement Based Propagation Model for Small Cells to Evaluate Global Exposure

Nowadays wireless technologis play an important role in people's everyday life. As data traffic grows significantly, operators aim to improve the performance of their network in order to respond to the growing demand. Small cells seem to be a promising technique to achieve this goal. Meanwhile, along with the expansion in terms of mobile technologies, public concerns about exposure induced by radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMF) still persists. In this paper, a new method is presented to assess the global exposure of a population induced by small cells using measurement data. The path loss exponent parameter has been statistically modeled. These models have been used to assess the exposure of indoor and outdoor users in a scenario.