A novel single base station location technique for microcellular wireless networks: Description and validation by a deterministic propagation model

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1502-1514

  Porretta, Marco ^a   Nepa, Paolo ^a   Manara, Giuliano ^a   Giannetti, Filippo ^a   Dohler, Mischa ^b   Allen, Ben ^b   Aghvami, A Hamid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RAY TRACING;

DETERMINISTIC PROPAGATION MODEL; MICROCELLULAR WIRELESS NETWORKS; MOBILE TERMINAL; RADIOLOCATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4744349563     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2004.832390     Document Type: Article

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