Progressive and approximate techniques in ray-tracing-based radio wave propagation prediction models

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 240-251

  Chen, Zhongqiang ^a   Bertoni, Henry L ^a   Delis, Alex ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Faithfulness and fairness of prediction results; Observability and controllability; Prediction accuracy and prediction error; Progressive and approximate prediction model; Sample generator and workload estimator

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OBSERVABILITY; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; THEOREM PROVING;

APPROXIMATE PREDICTION MODEL; PROGRESSIVE PREDICTION MODEL; RAY-TRACING-BASED RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION PREDICTION MODEL; SAMPLE GENERATOR; WORKLOAD ESTIMATOR;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 1542285849     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.822446     Document Type: Article

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