Cluster characteristics in a MIMO indoor propagation environment

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1465-1474

  Czink, Nicolai ^a,b,c   Yin, Xuefeng ^a,d   Özcelik, Hüseyin ^e   Herdin, Markus ^f   Bonek, Ernst ^a,b   Fleury, Bernard H ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^f ROHDE AND SCHWARZ GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clustering methods; MIMO systems; Modeling; Multipath channels; Radio propagation

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH-OF- DEPARTURE; MIMO SYSTEMS; RICIAN FADING; ROOTMEAN-SQUARE CLUSTER AZIMUTH SPREADS (CAS);

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FADING CHANNELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICS; TRANSMITTERS;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34247362414     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.348343     Document Type: Article

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