Outdoor propagation channel modeling in foliage environment

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2243-2252

  Liang, Jing ^a   Liang, Qilian ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Foliage; Goodness of fit; Log logistic; Narrowband; Outdoor; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL RATES; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CHANNEL MODEL; CHANNEL MODELING; CLEAN ALGORITHMS; CLUTTER MODELS; FOLIAGE ENVIRONMENT; FUTURE WIRELESS SYSTEMS; GOODNESS OF FIT; LOG-LOGISTIC; LOG-LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION; LOG-NORMAL; MULTI-PATH; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; NARROW BANDS; NONLINE OF SIGHT; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; POISSON PROCESS; PROPAGATION CHANNEL MODELING; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RAYLEIGH FADING MODEL; SCATTERING ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL MODELING; TIME VARYING; ULTRA WIDEBAND RADARS; WEIBULL;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FADING CHANNELS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 77953739208     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2043697     Document Type: Article

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