A random walk model of wave propagation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1304-1317

  Franceschetti, Massimo ^a   Bruck, Jehoshua ^b   Schulman, Leonard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microcellular systems; Path loss; Random media; Random walks; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TRANSMITTERS;

INVERSE SQUARE LAW; RANDOM WALK MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 2942538342     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.827540     Document Type: Article

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