Smart antenna arrays with oscillating beam patterns: Characterization of transmit diversity in semi-elliptic coverage

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1549-1556

  Zekavat, Seyed Alireza ^a,b,c   Nassar, Carl R ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Diversity methods; Geometric modeling; Time varying channels

Indexed keywords

BASE STATION; BEAM PATTERN OSCILLATION; GEOMETRIC BASED STOCHASTIC CHANNEL MODEL; MOBILE STATION; SMART ANTENNA; TIME DIVERSITY; TIME VARYING CHANNELS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RADIO RECEIVERS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0036811338     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2002.803974     Document Type: Article

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