Impulse response of the HVAC duct as a communication channel

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1736-1742

  Nikitin, Pavel V ^a   Stancil, Daniel D ^b   Tonguz, Ozan K ^b   Xhafa, Ariton E ^b   Cepni, Ahmet G ^b   Brodtkorb, Dagfin ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Asea Brown Bovari Corp Res (ABB)   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dispersive channels; Indoor radio communication; Multimode waveguides; Wireless local area network (LAN)

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING DUCTS; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; CALCULATIONS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO TRANSMISSION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VENTILATION DUCTS; WAVEGUIDES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DELAY SPREAD; INDOOR RADIO COMMUNICATION; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 0242270882     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.818098     Document Type: Article

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