Investigation into the sensitivity of the power predictions of a microcellular ray tracing propagation model

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1140-1151

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

^a Adaptive Broadband Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; PERMITTIVITY; RADIO RECEIVERS; RAY TRACING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

MICROCELLULAR MODEL; NARROWBAND MEASUREMENT; RADIO CHANNEL PREDICTIONS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034201967     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.875221     Document Type: Article

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