Theory and analysis of adaptive cylindrical array antenna for ultrawideband wireless communications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3075-3083

  Hussain, Malek G M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Adaptive array; Array antenna; Conformal array; Cylindrical array; Generalized Gaussian pulse; Impulse communications; Ultrawideband communications

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ARRAYS; CONFORMAL ARRAYS; CYLINDRICAL ARRAYS; GENERALIZED GAUSSIAN PULSE; IMPULSE COMMUNICATIONS; ULTRAWIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 29144478350     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2005.857995     Document Type: Article

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