Comparative study of lateral profile knife-edge diffraction and ray tracing technique using GTD in urban environment

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 249-254

  Mokhtari, Hatem ^a   Lazaridis, Pavlos ^a  

^a TDF C2R Broadcasting and Wireless Research Center   (France)

Author keywords

Building; Cellular radio; Electromagnetic wave diffraction; Electromagnetic wave scattering; Fresnel integral; Geometrical theory of diffraction; GTD; Knife edge; Land mobile radio; Microcell coverage prediction; Path loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747346535     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.740100     Document Type: Article

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