Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarlosGM_DISSERT.pdf: 4338321 bytes, checksum: 5834ff97d013cae154b31036fbc6dbe6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-29 / Even living in the XXI century are still some difficulties in access to broadband Internet in several Brazilian cities, due to the purchasing power of people and lack of government investment. But even with these difficulties, we seek to encourage the use of wireless technology, which is based on the IEEE 802.11b protocol - also known as Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) Wireless Fidelity Communications, having wide range of commercial applications in the world market, nationally and internationally. In Brazil, this technology is in full operation in major cities and has proved attractive in relation to the access point to multipoint and point-to-point. This paper is a comparative analysis of prediction field, using models based on the prediction of propagation loss. To validate the techniques used here, the Okumura-Hata models, modified Okumura-Hata, Walfisch-Ikegami model, were applied to a wireless computer network, located in the neighborhood of Cajupiranga in the city of Melbourn, in Rio Grande do Norte . They are used for networking wireless 802.11b, using the Mobile Radio to measure signal levels, beyond the heights of the antennas and distances from the transmitter. The performance data versus distance are added to the graphs generated and compared with results obtained through calculations of propagation models / Mesmo vivendo em pleno s?culo XXI ainda encontram-se dificuldades no acesso ? internet banda larga nos diversos munic?pios brasileiros, em decorr?ncia do poder aquisitivo dos habitantes bem como falta de investimento do governo. A tecnologia das redes de acesso sem fio baseadas no protocolo IEEE 802.11b - tamb?m denominada de Wi Fi, (Wireless Fidelity) Fidelidade em Comunica??es sem Fio, possui larga gama de aplica??es atualmente no mercado mundial comercial, nacional e internacional. No Brasil, esta tecnologia encontra-se em plena opera??o nas principais cidades e tem-se mostrado atrativa no que concerne aos acessos ponto multiponto e ponto-a-ponto. Neste trabalho s?o elaborados, uma an?lise comparativa de predi??o de campo, e analisados modelos de predi??o das perdas de propaga??o, Modelo Okumura-Hata, Lee, Modelo de Ikegami-Walfisch, para uma rede de computadores sem fio, no bairro de Cajupiranga e no Centro, no munic?pio de Parnamirim, no Rio Grande do Norte. S?o usados equipamentos de redes sem fio do padr?o 802.11b, analisador de espectro, onde os n?veis de sinais s?o medidos, al?m das alturas das antenas e das dist?ncias em rela??o ao transmissor. Os dados de pot?ncia versus dist?ncia s?o adicionados nos gr?ficos gerados e comparados com os resultados obtidos