Using FDTD to evaluate ray-tracing models for propagation prediction in urban microcells

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1998 Digest - Antennas: Gateways to the Global Network - Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 1676-1679

  Schuster, Joseph W ^a   Luebbers, Raymond J ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FORECASTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; URBAN GROWTH; ANTENNAS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING;

DELAY SPREAD; MICRO CELL; PATH LOSS; PROPAGATION MODELS; PROPAGATION PREDICTION; RAY-TRACING MODEL; SITE-SPECIFIC;

RAY TRACING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

URBAN MICROCELLS;

EID: 0031640527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.1998.690879     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. I. J. Schuster and R. Luehhers, "Comparison of GTD and FDTD Predictions for UHF Radio Wave Propagalion in a Simple Outdoor Urban Environment, " IEEE APS Int. Symp. Dig., Montreal, Canada, vol. 3, pp. 2022-2025, July 1997.
2. J. Schuster and K. Luebbers, "Hybrid SBWGTD radio propagation model for site-specific predictions in an urban environment, " 12th Ann. Rev. Of Progress in Applied Compufafionol Elecfromagnefics, Monterey, CA, vol. 1, pp. 84-92. Mar. 1996.
3. R. J. Luehbers, "Finite conductivity uniform GTD versus knife edge diffraction in prediction of propagation path loss." IEEE Trans. Aitfennas Propagal., vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 70-76, Jan. 1984.