Modeling the ultra-wideband outdoor channel: Model specification and validation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1987-1997

  Santos, Telmo ^a   Tufvesson, Fredrik ^a   Molisch, Andreas ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

(GSCM); Geometry based stochastic channel model; Outdoor; Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless propagation

Indexed keywords

DELAY DEPENDENT; FADING STATISTICS; GAS STATIONS; MEASURED CHANNEL; MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; MULTI-PATH COMPONENTS; RMS DELAY SPREAD; SPATIAL LOCATION; STOCHASTIC CHANNEL MODEL; ULTRA-WIDEBAND CHANNEL MODELS; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPULSE RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 77953280152     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.06.090392     Document Type: Article

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