Angular power distribution and mean effective gain of mobile antenna in different propagation environments

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 823-838

  Kalliola, Kimmo ^a   Sulonen, Kati ^a   Laitinen, Heikki ^b   Kivekäs, Outi ^a   Krogerus, Joonas ^c   Vainikainen, Pertti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular power distribution; Mean effective gain; Mobile antenna; Polarization; Radio channel sounding

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO STATIONS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

ANGULAR POWER DISTRIBUTION; MEAN EFFECTIVE GAIN; RADIO CHANNEL SOUNDER; RANDOM FIELD MEASUREMENT;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0036766505     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2002.800639     Document Type: Article

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