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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 47 Number 1, January 1999

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Prediction and Measurement of Wall Insertion Loss

Thad B. Gibson and David C. Jenn, Senior Member, IEEE

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Abstract:

A propagation loss study is presented to determine the attenuation of various building walls. An approximate model was developed for the propagation of a spherical electromagnetic wave through a building wall of known material properties. This model is based on the method of images and geometrical optics. This approximate model is shown to be in good agreement with measured results.

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  2. D. C. Jenn, Radar and Laser Cross Section.New York: Amer. Inst. Aeronaut. Astronaut. (AIAA), 1995.
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