Deterministic approach for fast simulations of indoor radio wave propagation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 3 II, 2007, Pages 938-948

  Gorce, Jean Marie ^a,b   Jaffrès Runser, Katia ^a,b,c   de la Roche, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a UNIV LYON   (France)

^b INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^c STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency domain; Indoor propagation; Parflow; Simulation; Transmission line matrix (TLM); Wave propagation; wLAN planning

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS; RAY TRACING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

INDOOR PROPAGATION; PARFLOW; TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34047192234     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.891811     Document Type: Article

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