Wireless propagation in tunnels

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 11-26

  Dudley, Donald G ^a   Liénard, Martine ^b   Mahmoud, Samir F ^c   Degauque, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Circular waveguides; Dielectric waveguides; Electromagnetic propagation; MIMO systems; Multimode waveguides; Rectangular waveguides; Tunnels; Waveguide bends; Waveguide excitation; Waveguide theory

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE BENDS; WAVEGUIDE EXCITATION; WAVEGUIDE THEORY;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DECODING; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MIMO SYSTEMS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TUNNELS; WAVEGUIDE CIRCULATORS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 49049083811     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2007.376637     Document Type: Article

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