Multilevel fast multipole calibration of ray models with application to wireless propagation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2794-2799

  Li, Ling ^a   Carin, Lawrence ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING;

MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 7244242675     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.834623     Document Type: Article

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