Indoor Propagation Measurements at Infrared Frequencies for Wireless Local Area Networks Applications

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 562-576

  Hashemi, Homayoun ^a   Behbaheni, Farbod ^a   Yun, Gang ^b   Kavehrad, Mohsen ^b   Galko, Peter A ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOOR PROPAGATION MEASUREMENT; INDOOR WIRELESS OPTICAL CHANNEL; INFRARED FREQUENCY; LINE OF SIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL RECEIVER; PATH LOSS; WIRELESS IN BUILDING COMMUNICATIONS;

COLLEGE BUILDINGS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DISPERSION (WAVES); INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MODEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0028493649     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: 19399359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.312790     Document Type: Article

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