Ray propagation in a random lattice: A maximum entropy, anomalous diffusion process

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1888-1896

  Marano, Stefano ^a   Franceschetti, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in random media; Maximum entropy methods; Percolation lattices

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO WAVES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; PERCOLATION LATTICES; RANDOM LATTICE; RAY PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 22444444390     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.848475     Document Type: Article

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