Multipath effects in ultrawideband rake reception

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 507-514

  Malik, Wasim Q ^a   Stevens, Christopher J ^b   Edwards, David J ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diversity combining; Hybrid selection maximal ratio combining (H S MRC); Indoor propagation; Multipath fading; Rake receiver; Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MULTIPATH FADING; RECEPTION QUALITY;

INDOOR PROPAGATION; RAKE RECEIVERS; ULTRAWIDEBAND RAKE RECEPTION; WIDEBAND MULTIPATH CHANNELS;

MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

EID: 40549094343     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.915414     Document Type: Article

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