Space and polarization diversity measurements in an indoor radio environment at 1800 MHz using a dual-channel receiver

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-113

  Papadakis, N ^a,b   Stavropoulos, I ^a   Xirotsopanos, E ^a   Constantinou, P ^a,c,d,e  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b RACE Program Mobile Networks   (Greece)

^c Telesat   (Canada)

^d Ministry of Communications   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antenna diversity schemes; Indoor radio propagation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DIVERSITY SCHEMES; RADIO COMMUNICATIONS; RICIAN STATISTICS; SIGNAL RELIABILITY;

DATA REDUCTION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBABILITY; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RAYLEIGH FADING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FADING (RADIO); RADIO RECEIVERS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA DIVERSITY SCHEMES; DUAL CHANNEL RECEIVERS; INDOOR RADIO PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032041219     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018861317834     Document Type: Article

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