Comparison of Lossy Wedge Diffraction Coefficients with Application to Mixed Path Propagation Loss Prediction

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 1031-1034

  Luebbers, Raymond J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES -- HEURISTIC; RADIO TRANSMISSION -- PROPAGATION EFFECTS;

HEURISTIC DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; MALIUZHINETS DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; MIXED PATH PROPAGATION LOSS PREDICTION; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; WEDGE DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0024036650     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.7210     Document Type: Article

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