Comparison of MIMO antenna configurations: Methods and experimental results

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1021-1031

  Suvikunnas, Pasi ^a   Salo, Jari ^c   Vuokko, Lasse ^c   Kivinen, Jarmo ^d   Sulonen, Kati ^e   Vainikainen, Pertti ^b  

^a Patentti ja rekisterihallitus Finland   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c European Communications Engineering Ltd   (Finland)

^d Elektrobit Group Plc   (Finland)

^e ACADEMY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antenna evaluation; Mean effective gain (MEG); Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Outage mutual information; Outage mutual information (MI); Radio channel measurements

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ANTENNAS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MEAN EFFECTIVE GAIN; OUTAGE MUTUAL INFORMATION; RADIO CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 41949085145     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.905347     Document Type: Article

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