Extra-High Frequency Line-of-Sight Propagation for Future Urban Communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3109-3121

  Khan, Shahid Ahmed ^c   Tawfik, Abdulkarim Naji ^a   Gibbins, Chris J ^b   Gremont, Boris Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Amplitude scintillations; Line of sight links; Microwave communication; Microwave radio propagation; Millimeter wave communication; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave propagation; Millimeter wave radio propagation; Radio communication

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION; URBAN COMMUNICATIONS;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0242612031     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.818779     Document Type: Article

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