On the design of switched-beam wideband base stations

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 158-167

  Siachalou, Eleftheria ^a   Vafiadis, Elias ^a   Goudos, Sotirios S ^a   Samaras, Theodoros ^a   Koukourlis, Christos S ^b   Panas, Stavros ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptive arrays; Broadband communication; Butler matrix; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Land mobile radio equipment; Signal processing antennas; Smart antennas; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNA RADIATION; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE ARRAY; BROADBAND COMMUNICATION; BUTTLER MATRIX; SWITCHED-BEAM WIDEBAND BASE STATION;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2442519191     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2004.1296180     Document Type: Article

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