A mixed rays - Modes approach to the propagation in real road and railway tunnels

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1095-1105

  Fuschini, Franco ^a   Falciasecca, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Field prediction; Modal theory; Propagation in tunnels; Ray models

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC MODES; DESIGN AND PLANNING; IN-LINE; MAIN EFFECT; MODAL THEORY; PREDICTION TOOLS; PROPAGATING FIELD; PROPAGATION MODELING; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; RAILWAY TUNNELS; RAY MODELS; SCIENTIFIC DATA; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK; WALL ROUGHNESS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 84856998201     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173137     Document Type: Article

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