Simulations and measurements of wave propagations in curved road tunnels for signals from GSM base stations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2577-2584

  Wang, Te Shun ^b   Yang, Chang Fa ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b CHIN MIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mobile communications; Ray tracing; Tunnel; Uniform theory of diffraction (UTD); Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; ROAD TUNNELS; SIGNAL FREQUENCY; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD);

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BASE STATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RAY TRACING; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33947142332     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.880674     Document Type: Article

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