A New Heuristic Geometrical Approach for Finding Non-Coplanar Multiple Edge Diffraction Ray Paths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2669-2672

  Ng, K H ^a   Tameh, E K ^a   Nix, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffraction; propagation; ray tracing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249707791     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.880775     Document Type: Article

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