The industrial indoor channel: Large-scale and temporal fading at 900, 2400, and 5200 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2740-2751

  Tanghe, Emmeric ^b   Joseph, Wout ^a,b,c   Verloock, Leen ^b   Martens, Luc ^a,b   Capoen, Henk ^d   Van Herwegen, Kobe ^d   Vantomme, Wim ^d  

^a IEEE

^b Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology   (Belgium)

^c RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^d Hogeschool West Vlaanderen   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Industrial environment; Large scale fading; Path loss; Propagation; Temporal fading; Topography

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; MODEL BUILDINGS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PRECISION ENGINEERING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; LARGE-SCALE FADING; PATH LOSS; PROPAGATION; TEMPORAL FADING;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 48149099260     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070143     Document Type: Article

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