Ultra broadband indoor channel measurements and calibrated ray tracing propagation modeling at THz frequencies

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 547-558

  Priebe, Sebastian ^a,b   Kannicht, Marius ^a   Jacob, Martin ^a,b   Kurner, Thomas ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b Terahertz Communications Lab   (Germany)

Author keywords

MIMO channel measurements; Propagation modeling; Ray tracing propagation simulations; THz communications; Ultra broadband channel measurements

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BROADBAND CHANNELS; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; MIMO CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; PROPAGATION MODELS; PROPAGATION SIMULATION; RAY TRACING PROPAGATION; RAY TRACING PROPAGATION SIMULATION; THZ COMMUNICATIONS; ULTRA BROADBAND CHANNEL MEASUREMENT; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

RAY TRACING;

EID: 84894326961     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JCN.2013.000103     Document Type: Article

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