A characterization of indoor space and frequency diversity by ray-tracing modeling

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 411-419

  Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele ^a,b,c,e,f   Degli Esposti, Vittorio ^a,c,g,h   Frullone, Mario ^a,d,i,j   Riva, Guido ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

^e University of Bologna ^*  (Canada)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^g Res Dept Siemens Telecomunicazioni   (Italy)

^h European COST 231 Program

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^j Ital Assoc Elec Electron E   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FADING (RADIO); GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EQUAL GAIN COMBINING; FREQUENCY DIVERSITY; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING SYSTEM; RAY TRACING TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL SELECTION;

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0030125706     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.490226     Document Type: Article

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