Indoor channel characterisation for a wearable antenna array at 868 MHz

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 1783-1788

  Cotton, S L ^a   Scanlon, W G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

CROSSING RATES; DIVERSITY CONFIGURATION; SIGNAL STRENGTH;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 34250354016     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/wcnc.2006.1696566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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