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A wide-band experiment was performed in a two-floored modern office building at 2.4SGHz in August 1991. Some preliminary results are as follows. Circular polarization cannot reduce delay spread in OBS channels and CP signals are more vulnerable to depolarization in OBS channels. Our results show that vertically polarized (VP) directional antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver can give better delay spread and path loss results than other antenna combinations. The performance of VP directional antennas are found to be sensitive to the alignment of the antennas, and the performance gain over omnidirectional antennas degrades as shadowing effects increase. In the second half of the thesis, a deterministic wide-band propagation model that can predict channel impulse responses inside buildings is proposed and implemented. The three dimensional image-based propagation model includes effects of antenna pattern, antenna polarization, geometry of the building, and building materials. 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