Measurements and modeling of distributed antenna systems in railway tunnels

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2870-2879

  Briso Rodríguez, Cesar ^a   Cruz, Javier M ^b   Alonso, Jose I ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Metropolitan of Tenerife   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed antenna; Global System for Mobile Communication for Railway (GSM R); Modal analysis; Propagation in tunnels

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; RAILROAD TUNNELS; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSMITTERS;

DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM; ISOFREQUENCY DISTRIBUTED TRANSMITTER; MULTIFREQUENCY DISTRIBUTED TRANSMITTER;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 35148856088     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.900500     Document Type: Article

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