Abstract
Establishing of mobile communications in guided structures like railway tunnels, coal mines, etc., is gaining increasing importance due to the passage of high speed and high density of trains in tunnels and for monitoring of information on safety of workers and day-to-day operations in various mines. The present study reports investigation of mobile communication experiments in ultra high frequency band in railway tunnels of western India conducted in a moving train both in uplink and downlink directions. The observed signal fluctuations are discussed in terms of tunnel characteristics and different modes of propagation in tunnels and compared with model deduced values.










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The authors are grateful to Mr. Rajendra Singh for his help in data collection and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments which improved the quality of the paper.
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Prasad, M.V.S.N., Dalela, P.K. Some experimental investigation of the effect of railway tunnels on mobile communications in Western India. Ann. Telecommun. 64, 247–257 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-008-0052-3
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