Quantifying short-range surface-to-surface communications links

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 36-46

  Merrill, W M ^a   Liu, H L N ^b   Leong, J ^c   Sohrabi, K ^a   Pottie, G J ^a  

^a Sensoria Corporation   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic propagation in random media; Electromagnetic scattering by rough surfaces; Internetworking; Microwave propagation; Outdoor radio communication

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS HEIGHT; ANTENNAS SEPARATION; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; SURFACE COMMUNICATION LINKS; TWO RAY PROPAGATION MODEL; WIRELESS CONNECTED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 4644262374     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2004.1374086     Document Type: Article

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