BER performance of a uniform circular array versus a uniform linear array in a mobile radio environment

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 695-700

  Tsai, Jiann An ^a   Buehrer, R Michael ^a   Woerner, Brian D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle spread; Circular antenna arrays; Diversity performance; Fading channels; Fading correlation; Linear antenna arrays; Mobile radio; Uniform circular array (UCA); Uniform liner array (ULA)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BIT ERROR RATE; CORRELATION METHODS; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCIES; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING; TRANSMITTERS; VECTORS;

ANGLE SPREAD; CIRCULAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIVERSITY PERFORMANCE; FADING CHANNELS; FADING CORRELATION; LINEAR ANTENNA ARRAYS; UNIFORM CIRCULAR ARRAYS (UCA); UNIFORM LINER ARRAYS (ULA);

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 2542494990     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.826332     Document Type: Article

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