Path Loss, Delay Spread, and Outage Models as Functions of Antenna Height for Microcellular System Design

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 487-498

  Feuerstein, Martin J ^a,b   Blackard, Kenneth L ^a,c   Rappaport, Theodore S ^a   Seidel, Scott Y ^a,d   Xia, Howard H ^e  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S WEST NewVector Group Inc   (United States)

^c Fed Bur of Invest Laboratory   (United States)

^d TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e Telesis Technologies Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY SPREAD MEASUREMENT; FRESNEL ZONE CLEARANCE; LINE OF SIGHT TOPOGRAPHIES; MICROCELLULAR SYSTEM DESIGN; OUTAGE MODEL; WIDE BAND CHANNEL SOUNDER; WIDE BAND PATH LOSS;

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0028493589     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: 19399359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.312809     Document Type: Article

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