Evaluation and verification of the VHF/UHF propagation channel based on a 3-D-wave propagation model

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 393-404

  Kürner, Thomas ^a   Cichon, Dieter J ^a   Wiesbeck, Werner ^a  

^a E Plus Mobilfunk GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCIES; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FIELDSTRENGTH DELAY SPECTRUM; MULTIPATH WAVE PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION CHANNEL; STATISTICAL SUPERPOSITION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030109045     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.486310     Document Type: Article

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