Measurements and models for radio path loss and penetration loss in and around homes and trees at 5.85 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1484-1496

  Durgin, Greg ^a   Rappaport, Theodore S ^a   Xu, Hao ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Building penetration; In building propagation; Path loss; Residential wireless communications

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO TRANSMITTERS;

RADIO PATH LOSS; RADIO PENETRATION LOSS; RESIDENTIAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032206747     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.729393     Document Type: Article

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