Cluster properties investigated from a series of ultrawideband double directional propagation measurements in home environments

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3778-3788

  Haneda, Katsuyuki ^a,b   Takada, Jun Ichi ^a,c   Kobayashi, Takehiko ^d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Channel models; Clusters; Double directional channel; Ultrawideband (UWB) communications; Ultrawideband (UWB) propagation

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR-DELAY DOMAIN; ANTENNA DIRECTIVITY; CHANNEL MODEL; CHANNEL SOUNDERS; CHANNEL SOUNDING; CLUSTER PROPERTY; CLUSTERS; DIRECTIONAL INFORMATION; DYNAMIC RANGE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; PROPAGATION PATHS; SCATTERING LOSS; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND CHANNELS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS; UWB PROPAGATION; WOODEN HOUSE;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547243170     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886526     Document Type: Article

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