Coupling at cross, T, and L junctions in tunnels and urban street canyons

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 926-935

  Lee, Jeho ^a,b   Bertoni, Henry L ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Research and Development Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Corner propagation; Coupling loss; Modal analysis; Mode coupling; Mode diffraction; Ray mode conversion; Tunnel propagation; Urban street propagation

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; MOBILE ANTENNAS; TUNNELS;

COUPLING LOSSES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0038383361     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.811461     Document Type: Article

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