Efficient multielement ray tracing with site-specific comparisons using measured MIMO channel data

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1019-1032

  Ng, Kah Heng ^a   Tameh, Eustace K ^b   Doufexi, Angela ^b   Hunukumbure, Mythri ^b   Nix, Andrew R ^b  

^a Picochip Designs Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Propagation; Ray tracing; Scattering

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; BROADBAND NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RAY TRACING; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

DIFFRACTION IMAGE TREE; OBJECT PARTITIONING; PACKET-ERROR RATE; RUN-TIME EFFICIENCY; VISIBILITY DETERMINATION;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34249730934     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.895606     Document Type: Article

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