An integrated overview of the open literature's empirical data on the indoor radiowave channel's delay properties

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1451-1468

  Awad, Mohamad Khattar ^a   Wong, Kainam Thomas ^b   Li, Zheng Bin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c POLARIS WIRELESS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication channels; Dispersive channels; Fading channels; Microwave communication; Mobile communication; Multipath channels; Scatter channels

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION THEORY; FADING CHANNELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

DISPERSIVE CHANNELS; INDOOR RADIOWAVE COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; MICROWAVE COMMUNICATION;

RADIO WAVES;

EID: 44649105039     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.922171     Document Type: Review

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