Measurements and models for 38-GHz point-to-multipoint radiowave propagation

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 310-321

  Xu, Hao ^a   Rappaport, Theodore S ^a   Boyle, Robert J ^a   Schaffner, James H ^b  

^a Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group Blacksburg   (United States)

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO LINKS;

CRANE MODEL; LOCAL MULTIPOINT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS (LMDS); RICIAN DISTRIBUTION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033740815     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.840191     Document Type: Article

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