Path loss from a transmitter inside an aircraft cabin to an exterior fuselage-mounted antenna

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 50, Issue 3 PART 1, 2008, Pages 504-512

  Hurst, Kathy Wei ^a,b   Ellingson, Steven W ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b United States Patent and Trademark Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft antennas; Indoor propagation; Uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD)

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ESTIMATION; FUSELAGES; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; WINDOWS;

AIRCRAFT ANTENNAS; AIRCRAFT CABINS; ANTENNA TERMINALS; DETERMINISTIC TECHNIQUES; ELECTRONIC DEVICES; ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; HYBRID ANALYSIS; INDOOR PROPAGATION; MAGNETIC CURRENTS; MEAS URED RESULTS; MICROWAVE CAVITIES; PATH LOSS; SIMPLE METHODS; UNIFORM GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; UNIFORM GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD); VERY HIGH-FREQUENCY; WAVE MODELING;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT);

EID: 50649087467     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2008.926880     Document Type: Article

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