A model for predicting the power delay profile characteristics inside a room

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1110-1120

  Holloway, Christopher L ^a   Cotton, Michael G ^a   McKenna, Paul ^a  

^a Institute for Telecommunication Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO LINKS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHANNEL MODELING; DECAY RATE; DELAY SPREAD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN MODEL; POWER DELAY PROFILE; SABINE REVERBERATION EQUATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032593389     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.775360     Document Type: Article

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