Application of polynomial chaos to quantify uncertainty in deterministic channel models

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5754-5761

  Austin, Andrew C M ^a   Sood, Neeraj ^a   Siu, Joseph ^b   Sarris, Costas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b THALES   (France)

Author keywords

Finite difference methods; Indoor propagation; Indoor radio communication; Ray tracing; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; RADIO; RAY TRACING; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DETERMINISTIC CHANNEL MODEL; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; INDOOR PROPAGATION; INDOOR RADIO CHANNEL; INDOOR RADIO COMMUNICATION; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887878925     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2279094     Document Type: Article

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