Indoor channel measurements and characterization at 60 GHz for wireless local area network applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3180-3189

  Moraitis, Nektarios ^a   Constantinou, Philip ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Indoor channel measurements; Millimeter wave propagation; Modeling; WLANs

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INDOOR CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE PROPAGATION; PATH LOSS MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 11144258930     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.836422     Document Type: Article

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