Numerical modeling of an indoor wireless environment for the performance evaluation of WLAN systems

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 839-842

  Zygiridis, Theodoros T ^a   Kosmidou, Elissavet P ^a   Prokopidis, Konstantinos P ^a   Kantartzis, Nikolaos V ^a   Antonopoulos, Christos S ^a   Petras, Konstantinos I ^b   Tsiboukis, Theodoros D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b HELETEL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Indoor propagation; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; INDOOR PROPAGATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645162908     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2006.871649     Document Type: Article

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