A model for transition between outdoor and indoor propagation

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 85, Issue , 2008, Pages 147-167

  Blas, J ^a   Fernandez P ^a   Lorenzo, R M ^a   Abril, E J ^a   Mazuelas, S ^b   Bahillo, A ^b   Bullido, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b Centro Tecnologico para El Desarrollo de Las Telecomunicaciones de Castilla y Leon   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RADIO WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLASSICAL METHODS; COMMUNICATION EMITTERS; COMPUTATION PROCESS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); INDOOR PROPAGATION; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 56749163792     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/pier08072101     Document Type: Article

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