A novel 3-d indoor ray-tracing propagation model: the path generator and evaluation of narrow-band and wide-band predictions

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1152-1168

  Athanasiadou, Georgia E ^a   Nix, Andrew R ^b  

^a Adaptive Broadband Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Narrow band and wide band indoor radio channel measurements and predictions; Propagation modeling; Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANTENNA POLARIZATION; CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE; INDOOR RADIO; RADIO CHANNEL MEASUREMENT;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034200063     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.875222     Document Type: Article

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