The discone antenna in a BPSK direct-sequence indoor UWB communication system

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1675-1680

  Zhang, Yongwei ^a,b   Brown, A K ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Microwave and Communication Systems Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^d Institution of Electrical Engineers IEE   (United Kingdom)

^e Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications(IMA)   (United States)

^f Federal Communications Commission (FCC)   (United Kingdom)

^g Technical Advisory Commission (TAC)   (United Kingdom)

^h Antennas and Propagation Society (AP S) Joint Chapter   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ IEEE Region 8 Microwave Theory and Techniques Society ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary phase shift keying (BPSK); Discone; Ray tracing; Time domain; Transfer function (TF); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BINARY PHASE-SHIFT KEYING (BPSK); DISCONE; DISCONE ANTENNA; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); PHASE SHIFT KEYING; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 33645918604     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.872049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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