Line-of-sight propagationLine-of-sight propagation is a characteristic of electromagnetic radiation or acoustic wave propagation which means waves can only travel in a direct visual path from the source to the receiver without obstacles. Electromagnetic transmission includes light emissions traveling in a straight line. The rays or waves may be diffracted, refracted, reflected, or absorbed by the atmosphere and obstructions with material and generally cannot travel over the horizon or behind obstacles.
Ultra haute fréquenceLa bande des ultra hautes fréquences (ultra high frequency/UHF) est la bande du spectre radioélectrique comprise entre et , soit les longueurs d'onde de à . La bande UHF est le terme officiel désignant les fréquences radio de 300 à , mais la partie haute appartient plus généralement au domaine technique des « hyperfréquences » qui s'étend de () à . On y trouve donc des appellations anciennes et largement utilisées comme la Bande L et la Bande S.
Rayleigh fadingRayleigh fading is a statistical model for the effect of a propagation environment on a radio signal, such as that used by wireless devices. Rayleigh fading models assume that the magnitude of a signal that has passed through such a transmission medium (also called a communication channel) will vary randomly, or fade, according to a Rayleigh distribution — the radial component of the sum of two uncorrelated Gaussian random variables.
