Parallel receiver channel sounder for spatial and MIMO characterisation of the mobile radio channel

IEE Proceedings: Communications

Volumn 152, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 912-918

  Salous, S ^a   Filippidis, P ^b   Lewenz, R ^a   Hawkins, I ^c   Razavi Ghods, N ^a   Abdallah, M ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Siemens ^*  (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CALIBRATION; RADIO; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

CHANNEL SOUNDERS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; SINGLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (SIMO) SYSTEMS; UMTS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 29144436292     PISSN: 13502425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-com:20045346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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