FR-UB.4P: Propagation Phenomena and Scattering of EM Waves | 
   | Session Type: Oral | 
   | Time: Friday, July 14, 13:20 - 17:00 | 
   | Location: Hillcrest AB | 
   | Session Chairs: Ramakrishna  Janaswamy, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Prasant Sahu, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar
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   | 13:20 - 13:40 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.1: NUMERICAL ESTIMATION OF PROPAGATION PATH LOSS FOR SMART GAS METERS IN BUILT-UP AREAS BASED ON LARGE-SCALE FDTD SIMULATION | 
   
  
    |          Takashi Hikage, Masakazu Yamagishi, Toshio Nojima, Hokkaido University, Japan; Sota Tsuchiya, Takuya Kawata, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Japan | 
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   | 13:40 - 14:00 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.2: FROM PHYSICS-BASED PROPAGATION MODELING TO NETWORK DESIGN FOR TRAIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS IN TUNNELS | 
   
  
    |          Neeraj Sood, Jorg Liebeherr, Costas D. Sarris, University of Toronto, Canada | 
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   | 14:00 - 14:20 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.3: PARAMETER ANALYSIS OF PROPAGATION ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS FOR 1-6 GHZ IN THE OPEN ENVIRONMENT | 
   
  
    |          Jae-Won Choi, Chosun University, Republic of Korea; Hwa Choon Lee, Chodang University, Republic of Korea; Young Chul Lee, Mokpo National Maritime University, Republic of Korea; Donggeun Choi, Sung Won Park, National Radio Research Agency, Republic of Korea; Soon-Soo Oh, Chosun University, Republic of Korea | 
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   | 14:20 - 14:40 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.4: OBLIQUE SCATTERING BY PENETRABLE CYLINDERS OF ARBITRARY CROSS SECTION | 
   
  
    |          Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States | 
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   | 14:40 - 15:00 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.5: COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR LAYERED SPHEROID SCATTERING ANALYSIS: APPLICATION TO BIOEM PROBLEMS | 
   
  
    |          Chang Liu, Ali E. Yilmaz, The University of Texas at Austin, United States | 
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  | 15:00 - 15:20 Break | 
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   | 15:20 - 15:40 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.6: REDUCTION OF RADAR CROSS SECTION USING ACTIVE MICROSTRIP ANTENNA ELEMENTS | 
   
  
    |          Sohini Sengupta, David R. Jackson, Daniel Onofrei, Henry Council, University of Houston, United States | 
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   | 15:40 - 16:00 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.7: APPROXIMATIVE COMPUTATION METHODS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING REDUCTION | 
   
  
    |          Andreas Ericsson, Daniel Sjöberg, Christer Larsson, Torleif Martin, Lund University, Sweden | 
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   | 16:00 - 16:20 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.8: NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF BRILLOUIN PRECURSOR FORMATION THROUGH WET LOAMY SOIL-FILLED WAVEGUIDE | 
   
  
    |          Muhammad Dawood, Kaixing Li, New Mexico State University, United States; Ana Alejos, New Mexico State University/University of Vigo, Spain | 
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   | 16:20 - 16:40 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.9: HIGH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF DIFFRACTION WITHIN THE TUBES OF AN INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTOR OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES | 
   
  
    |          Giuseppe Pelosi, University of Florence, Italy; Innocenzo M. Pinto, University of Sannio, Italy; Leonardo Possenti, Stefano Selleri, University of Florence, Italy | 
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   | 16:40 - 17:00 | 
   |   FR-UB.4P.10: A STUDY ON FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION FOR BHUBANESWAR CITY | 
   
  
    |          Suman Malik, Prasant Kumar Sahu, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Bhubaneswar, India | 
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