Combination of geometric and finite difference models for radio wave propagation in outdoor to indoor scenarios

EuCAP 2010 - The 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  De La Roche, G ^a   Flipo, Paul ^b   Lai, Zhihua ^a   Villemaud, Guillaume ^b   Zhang, Jie ^a   Gorce, Jean Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIV LYON   (France)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Outdoor to indoor; Parflow; Radio propagation; Ray launching

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MODELING; COMBINED MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INDOOR PROPAGATION; INDOOR SIGNALS; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; NEW MODEL; OUTDOOR TO INDOOR; RADIO NETWORK PLANNING; RADIO PROPAGATION; RAY LAUNCHING; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

ANTENNAS; LAUNCHING; RADIO WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 77955319718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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