A wideband spatial channel model for system-wide simulations

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 389-403

  Calcev, George ^a   Chizhik, Dimitry ^b   Göransson, Bo ^c   Howard, Steven ^d   Huang, Howard ^b   Kogiantis, Achilles ^b   Molisch, Andreas F ^e,f   Moustakas, Aris L ^b,g   Reed, Doug ^a   Xu, Hao ^b,d  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^d QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

^e MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angle spread; Antennas; Arrays; Capacity; Channel model; Delay spread; Directional; Multipath channel; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Polarization; Simulations; Spatial channel; Spatial channel model (SCM); Stochastic model; Time varying channel; Wideband

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CELLULAR ARRAYS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE ANTENNAS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; POLARIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO); SPATIAL CHANNEL MODEL (SCM); TIME-VARYING CHANNEL;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34147188485     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.891463     Document Type: Article

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