An approach to include stochastic rough surface scattering into deterministic ray-optical wave propagation modeling

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1508-1515

  Didascalou, Dirk ^a   Döttling, Martin ^a   Geng, Norbert ^a   Wiesbeck, Werner ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Kirchhoff approximation; Ray launching; Ray tracing; Ray optical propagation modeling; Rough surface scattering

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RAY TRACING;

ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0042199024     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.813600     Document Type: Article

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