Beam tracing for multipath propagation in urban environments

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2631-2635

  Schmitz, Arne ^a   Rick, Tobias ^b   Karolski, Thomas ^a   Kobbelt, Leif ^a   Kuhlen, Thorsten ^b  

^a Computer Graphics Group ^*

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM TRACING; COMPLEX CHANNELS; CONTINUOUS BEAMS; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; MICROCELL ENVIRONMENT; MULTI-PATH EFFECT; NOVEL METHODS; ON-SITE MEASUREMENT; PARALLELIZATIONS; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; REAL-WORLD NETWORKS; SIMULATION PARAMETERS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70349865151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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