A novel quantification of 3D directional spread from small-scale fading analysis

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1699-1704

  Pal, Arindam ^a   Beach, Mark ^a   Nix, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; CORRELATION METHODS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

ARRAY ORIENTATION; FADING ANALYSIS; SPATIAL CORRELATION; SPATIAL DIVERSITY ELEMENTS;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 33846835259     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.254964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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