Radio coverage calculations of terrestrial wireless networks using an open-source GRASS system

WSEAS Transactions on Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 646-657

  Hrovat, Andrej ^a   Ozimek, Igor ^a   Vilhar, Andrej ^a   Celcer, Tine ^a   Saje, Iztok ^b   Javornik, Tomaž ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b Novo mesto   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clutter; Grass gis; Network planning tool; Open source; Path loss; Radio signal coverage; Raster

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER; GRASS GIS; NETWORK PLANNING; OPEN-SOURCE; PATH LOSS; RADIO SIGNAL COVERAGE; RASTER;

ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 77958089484     PISSN: 11092742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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