A time-efficient near-field scattering method applied to radio-coverage simulation in urban microcellular environments

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3359-3363

  Papkelis, Efstratios G ^a   Anastassiu, Hristos T ^b   Frangos, Panayiotis V ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Aerospace Industry Corporation   (Greece)

Author keywords

Near field scattering; Physical optics (PO) approximation; Radiocoverage prediction; Urban microcellular environment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORECASTING; MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; SCATTERING;

ACCURATE; ANALYTICAL METHODS; COMPUTATION TIMES; COVERAGE SIMULATIONS; EFFICIENT; EFFICIENT METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC; EM TECHNIQUES; FIELD CALCULATIONS; FRESNEL; FRESNEL ZONES; MICROCELLULAR ENVIRONMENTS; MICROCELLULAR SYSTEMS; NEAR FIELD SCATTERING; NEAR-FIELD; PREDICTION CODES; RADIOCOVERAGE PREDICTION; RECTANGULAR PLATES; RESEARCH GROUPS; SIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONS; SIMULATION PROGRAMS; URBAN MICROCELLULAR ENVIRONMENT;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 54249094253     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.929516     Document Type: Article

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