Modeling the effects of nearby buildings on inter-floor radio-wave propagation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2155-2161

  Austin, Andrew C M ^a   Neve, Michael J ^a   Rowe, Gerard B ^a   Pirkl, Ryan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Indoor radio communication; Modeling; Numerical analysis; Radio propagation

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION FACTORS; CHANNEL SOUNDERS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS; FREE SPACE; IN-BUILDING; INDOOR RADIO COMMUNICATION; MODELING; PREDICTION ERRORS; PROPAGATION MODELS; RADIO PROPAGATION; RECEIVED POWER; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SURROUNDING BUILDINGS; TWO-COMPONENT;

BUILDINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FLOORS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); REFLECTION;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 67949115713     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2021965     Document Type: Article

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