Experimental validation of a hybrid wide-angle parabolic equation - Integral equation technique for modeling wave propagation in indoor wireless communications

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 82, Issue , 2008, Pages 333-350

  Theofilogiannakos, G K ^a   Yioultsis, T V ^a   Xenos, T D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; INDOOR COMMUNICATIONS; INDOOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; INTEGRAL-EQUATION TECHNIQUE; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; RIGOROUS VALIDATION;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 45749084550     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER08031903     Document Type: Article

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