Characterization of wall dispersive and attenuative effects on UWB radar signals

Journal of the Franklin Institute

Volumn 345, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 640-658

  Muqaibel, Ali ^a   Safaai Jazi, Ahmad ^b  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Impulse radio; Insertion loss; Propagation; Rader; Trough wall; Ultra Wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; PAPER; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PIGMENTS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; RADIO; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TECHNOLOGY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

(MULTIPATH) PROPAGATION MODELING; ANTENNA EFFECTS; DISPERSIVE PROPERTIES; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); ELECTRO MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; FRANKLIN (CO); FREQUENCY DOMAIN TECHNIQUES; FREQUENCY RANGING; HIGH PRECISION; INDOOR COMMUNICATIONS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; MEASURED PARAMETERS; MODIFIED MODEL; MULTI PATH; MULTI PATH COMPONENTS; MULTI-PASS; MULTIBAND ULTRAWIDEBAND (UWB) SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; NARROW BAND SYSTEMS; NARROW BANDS; PAPER ADDRESSES; POWER BUDGETING; PULSE DISPERSION; PULSE SHAPING; SINGLE TRANSMISSION; THROUGH WALL IMAGING (TWI); ULTRA WIDEBAND (UWB) RADARS; ULTRA- WIDEBAND (UWB); ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH (UWB); UWB SIGNALING; UWB TECHNOLOGY;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTERS; CRACKS; DETECTORS; DISPERSIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NETWORKS; PIGMENT; PROPAGATION; RADAR; RADIO; SILICON; WAVES;

EID: 45849105555     PISSN: 00160032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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