Electronic tracking for wireless infrared communications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 989-999

  Jungnickel, Volker ^a   Forck, Andreas ^a   Haustein, Thomas ^a   Krüger, Udo ^a   Pohl, Volker ^a   Von Helmolt, Clemens ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Directions of arrival (DOA) estimation; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Optical arrays; Optical communication; Wireless local area network (WLAN)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); INFRARED TRANSMISSION; LENSES; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; PHOTODIODES; TRACKING (POSITION); TRANSCEIVERS;

BEAM STEERING; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL (DOA) ESTIMATION; MULTIACCESS COMMUNICATION; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; OPTICAL ARRAYS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042767196     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.817419     Document Type: Article

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