Radio-wave propagation into large building structures-part 1: CW Signal attenuation and variability

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1279-1289

  Young, William F ^a   Holloway, Christopher L ^b   Koepke, Galen ^b   Camell, Dennis ^b   Becquet, Yann ^b   Remley, Kate A ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency responder communications; Large building radio frequency propagation; Radio frequency propagation measurements

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY RESPONDER COMMUNICATIONS; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; LARGE BUILDINGS; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCY PROPAGATION;

BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; COMMUNICATION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; RADIO; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

RADIO BROADCASTING;

EID: 77950803524     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2041142     Document Type: Article

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