A reconfigurable multiple-input multiple-output communication system

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1719-1733

  Grau, Alfred ^a   Jafarkhani, Hamid ^a   De Flaviis, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas and propagation; MIMO systems; Reconfigurable antennas; Smart antennas; Space time coding; Transmission technology

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; BIT ERROR RATE; BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; INFORMATION THEORY; MIM DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA DESIGNS; ARRAY GAIN; BIT ERRORS; CHANNEL PROPAGATION; DIVERSITY ORDER; ERGODIC CAPACITY (EC); IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATION (ICE); MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS); ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES (OSTBCS); PHYSICAL CONSTRAINS; POWER ALLOCATION (PA); RADIATION STATES; RAYLEIGH CHANNELS; RE-CONFIGURABLE; RECEIVE ANTENNAS; RECONFIGURABLE ANTENNAS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR); TRANSMITTED SIGNALS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 47149091875     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.060905     Document Type: Article

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