Measurement and characterization of the temporal behavior of fixed wireless links

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1913-1922

  Ahumada, Luciana ^a,c   Feick, Rodolfo ^a   Valenzuela, Reinaldo A ^b   Morales, Claudio ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Autocovariance; Coherence time; Ricean fading channels; Temporal fading

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

AUTOCOVARIANCE; COHERENCE TIME; FIXED WIRELESS LINKS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; RICEAN FADING CHANNELS; TEMPORAL FADING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 30744442743     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.858189     Document Type: Article

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