Measurements and Analysis of the Indoor Wideband Millimeter Wave Wireless Radio Channel and Frequency Diversity Characterization

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 II, 2003, Pages 2974-2986

  Hammoudeh, Akram ^a   Scammell, David Anthony ^a   Sánchez, Manuel García ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coherence bandwidth; Diversity; Indoor channel; Millimeter wave; Radio wave propagation; RMS delay spread; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; CORRELATION METHODS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MICROCELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

FREQUENCY DIVERSITY;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142094652     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.818008     Document Type: Article

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