TU-A4.1P: Propagation in Indoor, Urban and Terrestrial Environments | 
   | Session Type: Oral | 
   | Time: Tuesday, July 11, 13:20 - 17:00 | 
   | Location: Golden Hill AB | 
   | Session Chairs: Christophe Caloz, École Polytechnique de Montréal and Reuven Shavit, Ben Gurion University
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   | 13:20 - 13:40 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.1: EFFECTS OF IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION ON V AND W BAND SIGNALS | 
   
  
    |          David R. Smith, Bertus Shelters, Derek Hesser, Peter Collins, IEEE, United States; James Fee, James Petrosky, American Nuclear Society, United States; Andrew Terzuoli, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, United States; Caglar Yardim, IEEE, United States | 
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   | 13:40 - 14:00 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.2: A REVIEW OF THE RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH VEGETATION | 
   
  
    |          Maryam Dehghani Estarki, Simon Fraser university, Canada; Chris Hynes, Andrew Lea, Fastback Networks, Canada; Rodney G Vaughan, Simon Fraser university, Canada | 
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   | 14:00 - 14:20 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.3: RADIO-CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION OF AN UNDERGROUND MINE USING CIRCULARLY POLORIZED ANTENNAS AT 2.4 GHZ | 
   
  
    |          Lamia Arabi, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada; Moulay Elhassan El Azhari, University of quebec in outaouais, Canada; Mourad Nedil, Nahi Kandil, Mohamedlamine Seddiki, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada; Larbi Talbi, University of quebec in outaouais, Canada | 
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   | 14:20 - 14:40 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.4: ON THE SHADOWING DISTRIBUTION FOR ULTRA WIDEBAND IN-BODY COMMUNICATION PATH LOSS MODELING | 
   
  
    |          Jan-Christoph Brumm, Gerhard Bauch, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany | 
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   | 14:40 - 15:00 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.5: QUANTIFYING THE DEGRADATION ON RADAR DETECTION RANGE THROUGH VEGETATION CLUTTER | 
   
  
    |          Paula Gómez-Pérez, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain; Marcos Crego-García, Iñigo Cuiñas, Universidade de Vigo, Spain | 
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  | 15:00 - 15:20 Break | 
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   | 15:20 - 15:40 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.6: IMPACT OF NLOS ON THE PATH LOSS AND CHANNEL CAPACITY OF A MIMO OFF-BODY SYSTEM INSIDE A MINE | 
   
  
    |          Moulay Elhassan El Azhari, Larbi Talbi, university of quebec in outaouais, Canada; Mourad Nedil, Ismail Benmabrouk, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada | 
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   | 15:40 - 16:00 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.7: NLOS CAPACITY AND TIME DISPERSION OF A MULTIPATH FADING MIMO CHANNEL USING DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS IN AN UNDERGROUND WBAN APPLICATION | 
   
  
    |          Moulay Elhassan El Azhari, Larbi Talbi, University of quebec in outaouais, Canada; Mourad Nedil, Ismail Benmabrouk, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada | 
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   | 16:00 - 16:20 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.8: SUB/SUPER-LUMINAL SPACE-TIME SLAB: FUNDAMENTAL SCATTERING SYMMETRIES | 
   
  
    |          Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger, Christophe Caloz, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada | 
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   | 16:20 - 16:40 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.9: A NOVEL ULTRAWIDEBAND FDTD NUMERICAL MODELING OF GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ON ARBITRARY DISPERSIVE SOILS | 
   
  
    |          Luciano Mescia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy; Pietro Bia, EmTeSys s.r.l., Italy; Diego Caratelli, The Antenna Company Nederland B.V., Netherlands | 
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   | 16:40 - 17:00 | 
   |   TU-A4.1P.10: TROPOSCATTER TRANSMISSION LOSS SUBSECTOIN MODEL | 
   
  
    |          Peipei Wei, Xiaoyan Du, Haiyan Yu, National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technology R&D Center (NDSC), China; Jianhui Liu, National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technology R&D Center (NDSC), Aarhus University Aarhus, China | 
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