Performance analysis and design aspects of mobile-terminal multiantenna configurations

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1664-1674

  Villanen, Juha ^a,b   Suvikunnas, Pasi ^a   Icheln, Clemens ^a   Ollikainen, Jani ^b   Vainikainen, Pertti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Effective array gain (EAG); Eigenvalue dispersion; Envelope correlation; Multiantenna

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EFFECTIVE ARRAY GAIN (EAG); EIGENVALUE DISPERSION; ENVELOPE CORRELATION;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 44849086456     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.907309     Document Type: Article

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