Modelling and measurements of millimetre wavelength propagation in urban environments

IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1300-1309

  Muhi Eldeen, Z ^a   Ivrissimtzis, L P ^b   Al Nuaimi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b RF Micro Devices   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; FIXED WIRELESS LINKS; GROUND SURFACES; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MILLIMETRE WAVES; PARAMETERISATION; POINT TO MULTIPOINT; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SECOND ORDER MOMENT; STATISTICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC REPRESENTATIONS; TRANSMITTING ANTENNA; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; PHYSICAL OPTICS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 77957156608     PISSN: 17518725     EISSN: 17518733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-map.2009.0431     Document Type: Article

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