Improving the accuracy of ray-tracing techniques for indoor propagation modeling

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2350-2358

  Remley, Kate A ^a,b,c   Anderson, Harry R ^a,b,c   Weisshar, Andreas ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EDX Engineering Inc   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; RAY TRACING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INDOOR PROPAGATION; KIRCHHOFF SURFACE INTEGRAL; PROPAGATION MODELING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034313174     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.901903     Document Type: Article

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