Methods for optimizing the location of base stations for indoor wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1481-1483

  Ji, Zhong ^a   Kumar Sarkar, Tapan ^a   Li, Bin Hong ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Indoor wireless communication; Optimization; Path loss; Propagation model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BASE STATION ANTENNAS; INDOOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; PATH LOSS; PROPAGATION MODEL; QUASI NEWTON METHOD; SIMPEX METHOD; STEEPEST DESCENT METHOD;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0036821355     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.802155     Document Type: Article

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