The postprocessing resolution required for accurate RF coverage validation and prediction

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1516-1521

  Bernardin, Pete ^a   Manoj, Kanagalu ^a  

^a NORTEL NETWORKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter resolution; Coverage verification; Drive testing; Propagation model tuning; Qos; Rf signal strength measurement; Sampling resolution; Spatial quantization noise; Terrain resolution; Wireless internet deployment

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INTERNET; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO LINKS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CLUTTER RESOLUTION; COVERAGE VERIFICATION; RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING RESOLUTION; SPATIAL QUANTIZATION NOISE; TERRAIN RESOLUTION; WIRELESS INTERNET DEPLOYMENT;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034261897     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.892534     Document Type: Article

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