A novel environment characterization metric for clustered MIMO channels : UUUUsed to validate a sage parameter estimator

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-98

  Czink, Nicolai ^a   Del Galdo, Giovanni ^b   Yin, Xuefeng ^c   Bonek, Ernst ^d   Ylitalo, Juha ^e  

^a TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA FTW   (Austria)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e Elektrobit Corporation   (Finland)

Author keywords

Clustering; MIMO channel; Performance metrics

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRACK PROPAGATION; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; SCATTERING;

(001) PARAMETER; BUSINESS MEDIA; CHANNEL ESTIMATOR (CE); MI MO CHANNELS; MULTI PATH COMPONENTS; MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT (MIMO) CHANNEL MODELING; OVERLAPPING CLUSTERS; PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENTS; PROPAGATION PATHS; SPRINGER (CO);

ESTIMATION;

EID: 46749143406     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-007-9357-1     Document Type: Article

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