Title :
Building corner diffraction measurements and predictions using UTD
Author :
Anderson, Harry R.
Author_Institution :
EDX Eng. Inc., Eugene, OR, USA
fDate :
2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Measurements of the electric field in the vicinity of the corner of a stone building are presented. The experimental results are compared to theoretical predictions using the uniform theory of diffraction (UTD) for dielectric wedges and simple specular ground reflections. The comparison of the two results show close agreement indicating that UTD is a viable approach for predicting the diffracted field around building corners in applications such as propagation modeling for communications systems operating in urban environments
Keywords :
building; digital radio; electric field measurement; electromagnetic wave diffraction; electromagnetic wave reflection; land mobile radio; prediction theory; radiowave propagation; UTD; building corner diffraction measurements; communications systems; dielectric wedges; diffracted field; electric field measurements; predictions; propagation modeling; simple specular ground reflections; stone building; uniform theory of diffraction; urban environments; Buildings; Communication systems; Dielectric measurements; Electric variables measurement; Equations; Optical reflection; Optical transmitters; Physical theory of diffraction; Predictive models; Ray tracing;
Journal_Title :
Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on