A random-phase-assisted ray-tracing technique for wireless channel modeling

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 126-134

  Zhu, Houtao ^a   Takada, Jun Ichi ^a   Araki, Kiyomichi ^b   Kobayashi, Takehiko ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAY TRACING;

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; RANDOM PHASE ASSISTED RAY TRACING TECHNIQUE;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034316584     PISSN: 10569170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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