Maximal-ratio eigen-combining for smarter antenna arrays

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 917-925

  Siriteanu, Constantin ^b,c   Blostein, Steven D ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Array signal processing; Diversity methods; Eigen combining; Fading channels

Indexed keywords

ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIVERSITY METHODS; EIGEN-COMBINING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FADING CHANNELS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33947591342     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.04883     Document Type: Article

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