A Measurement-Based Model for Predicting Coverage Areas of Urban Microcells

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1993, Pages 1013-1023

  Goldsmith, Andrea J ^a   Greenstein, Larry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COVERAGE AREA; LINE OF SIGHT REGIONS; LOCAL MEAN ATTENUATION (LMA); MICROCELLS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 0027664290     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.233214     Document Type: Article

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