Validation of radio channel models using an anechoic chamber

Proceedings - Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, PADS

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 114-121

  Zheng, Yuhao ^a   Nicol, David M ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Radio channel model; Ray tracing; Transmission line matrix

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION TO DETAILS; BEAM FORM; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; EXECUTION SPEED; PROBLEM DOMAIN; RADIO CHANNEL MODELS; RADIO CHANNELS; RADIO PROPAGATION; TRANSMISSION-LINE MATRIXES; VALIDATION STUDY; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT; WIRELESS NETWORK SIMULATION;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LINES; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; RAY TRACING; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

RADIO BROADCASTING;

EID: 77954098977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PADS.2010.5471660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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