The 5-GHz airport surface area channel - Part I: Measurement and modeling results for large airports

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2014-2026

  Matolak, David W ^a   Sen, Indranil ^a,b   Xiong, Wenhui ^a,c  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^c QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel impulse response; Channel impulse response (CIR); Fading; Radio propagation

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT SURFACES; BEST FIT; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL MODELLING; CORRELATION VALUES; DELAY SPREAD (DS); FADING PARAMETERS; GHZ BAND; IN LINE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELING RESULTS; MULTI PATH COMPONENTS; NAKAGAMI M; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS); NON-STATIONARITY; PATH LOSS MODELS; POWER-DELAY PROFILE (PDP); PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH MODELS; RMS DELAY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE (R.M.S.); TAPPED DELAY LINE (TDLAA); TEST SIGNALS; TWO TYPES; WEIBULL PROBABILITY;

EID: 48749117688     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.912334     Document Type: Article

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