Modeling air-to-ground path loss for low altitude platforms in urban environments

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2898-2904

  Al Hourani, Akram ^a   Kandeepan, Sithamparanathan ^a   Jamalipour, Abbas ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial Base Station; Air to Ground; Low Altitude Platform; Public Safety; Radio Propagation; Ray Tracing Simulation

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; DISASTERS; FORECASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; RAY TRACING; URBAN PLANNING;

AERIAL BASE STATION; AIR-TO-GROUND; GROUND PATHS; LOW ALTITUDE PLATFORM; LOW ALTITUDES; PATH LOSS; PUBLIC SAFETY; RAY TRACING SIMULATION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS RADIOS;

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EID: 84988304420     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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