Wireless corner: On mobile communications smart base-station system design

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 139-144

  Miaris, George ^a   Siachalou, Eleftheria ^a   Samaras, Theodoros ^a   Goudos, Sotirios ^a   Vafiadis, Elias ^a   Panas, Stavros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Direction of arrival estimation; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Land mobile radio equipment; Microstrip arrays; Shaped beam antennas; Smart antennas

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIO EQUIPMENT;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; LAND MOBILE RADIO CELLULAR SYSTEMS; LAND MOBILE RADIO EQUIPMENT; SHAPED BEAM ANTENNAS; SMART ANTENNAS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 23944503033     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2005.1487814     Document Type: Article

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