Cellular and PHS base station antenna systems

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E86-B, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 980-992

  Arai, Hiroyuki ^a   Cho, Keizo ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive antenna; Cellular system; Diversity antenna; Multi band antenna; Phase shifter; PHS

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADIO STATIONS;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA; ELECTRONIC BEAM TILTING; INDOOR BOOSTER SYSTEM; MULTI BAND ANTENNA; PERSONAL HANDPHONE SYSTEM;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0042745382     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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