Microcellular ray-tracing propagation model and evaluation of its narrow-band and wide-band predictions

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 322-335

  Athanasiadou, Georgia E ^a,b   Nix, Andrew R ^a   McGeehan, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Adaptive Broadband Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RAY TRACING;

ILLUMINATION ZONES; MICROCELLULAR MODEL;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033731818     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.840192     Document Type: Article

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