Multipath delay measurements and modeling for interfloor wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1334-1341

  Tan, S Y ^a   Tan, M Y ^a   Tan, H S ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFLOOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SIGNAL PATH LOSS; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FIR FILTERS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RAY TRACING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034204011     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.875253     Document Type: Article

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