Outdoor-to-indoor propagation loss prediction in 800-MHz to 8-GHz band for an urban area

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1059-1067

  Okamoto, Hideaki ^a   Kitao, Koshiro ^a   Ichitsubo, Shinichi ^a,b  

^a NTT DOCOMO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buildings; Mobile communication; Modeling; Propagation measurements; Radio propagation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCES; FREQUENCY RANGES; GENERATION SYSTEMS; GHZ BANDS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INDOOR PROPAGATION; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MODELING; PENETRATION LOSS; PROPAGATION LOSS; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; QUALITY OF COMMUNICATIONS; RADIO PROPAGATION; URBAN AREAS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FLOORS; MOBILE COMPUTING; RADIO BROADCASTING;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 64049095276     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.927996     Document Type: Article

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