In-building wideband partition loss measurements at 2.5 and 60 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 922-928

  Anderson, Christopher R ^a   Rappaport, Theodore S ^b  

^a Mobile and Portable Radio Research Group Blacksburg   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

In building propagation; Millimeter wavelength; Partition loss; Path loss

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

IN-BUILDINGPROPAGATION; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTHS; PARTITION LOSSES; PATH LOSS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 2542502524     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.826328     Document Type: Article

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