The case of outdoor to indoor propagation prediction at high elevation angles has been scarcely addressed and no direct relationship between the elevation angles and the building penetration loss has been reported. High Altitude Platform Stations a new means of providing International Mobile Telephony (IMT-2000)-will be operating at high elevation angles. This paper examines the impact of the h...

This paper presents an explicit formula for propagation path loss prediction of microcellular communication in an urban street scene. The formula is derived based on geometrical optics and diffraction theory and it takes into account multiple reflections along main streets, side streets and diffractions around corners. Comparisons between our theoretical results with measurements and ray tracin...

In this study, the impact of finite ground plane edge diffractions on the amplitude patterns of aperture antennas is examined. The Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD) and the Geometrical Optics (GO) methods are utilized to calculate the amplitude patterns of a conical horn, and rectangular and circular waveguide apertures mounted on square and circular finite ground planes. The electric field d...

Ray-tracing based radio wave propagation prediction models play an important role in the design of contemporary wireless networks as they may now take into account diverse physical phenomena including reflections, diffractions, and diffuse scattering. However, such models are computationally expensive even for moderately complex geographic environments. In this paper, we propose a computational...

We show that elastic waves can be excited at a fracture inside a transparent sample by focusing laser light directly onto this fracture. The associated displacement field, measured by a laser interferometer, has pronounced waves that are diffracted at the fracture tips. We confirm that these are tip diffractions from direct excitation of the fracture by comparing them with tip diffractions from...

A Mössbauer powder diffractometer was used to measure diffraction patterns from polycrystalline foils of Fe3Al. The intensities of Bragg diffractions were measured as a function of the energy of the incident photon. The bcc fundamental diffractions showed large changes in intensity as the incident energy was tuned through the nuclear resonances. These variations of diffraction intensity with in...

This work presents an algorithm to perform radiowave coverage predictions in urban environments using the Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD). The ray-tracing algorithm is based on the image theory for a quasi-3D environment. Multiple reflections and diffractions are considered through the separation of multipath components into four different classes, used to determine the scattered field. The...

The surface-related multiple elimination (SRME) method has proven to be successful on a large number of data cases. Most of the applications are still 2D, as the full 3D implementation is still expensive and under development. However, the earth is a 3D medium, such that 3D effects are difficult to avoid. Most of the 3D effects come from diffractive structures, whereas the specular reflections ...