Real-time 3-D spatial-temporal dual-polarized measurement of wideband radio channel at mobile station

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 439-448

  Kalliola, Kimmo ^b,c   Laitinen, Heikki ^d   Vaskelainen, Leo I ^d   Vainikainen, Pertti ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE STATION; MOBILE TERMINAL; MULTIPATH CHANNEL; WIDEBAND RADIO CHANNEL;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 0033685906     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.843093     Document Type: Article

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