Antenna arrays design and calibration for high resolution MIMO channel sounding at 3.5 GHz

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 936-940

  Farhat, H ^a,b   El Zein, G ^b  

^a IEEE

^b IETR   (France)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Channel characterization and modeling; MIMO channel sounder; Radio propagation; Spatio temporal measurements

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; CALIBRATION; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FREQUENCY BANDS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS; BEAM PATTERNS; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; CHANNEL SOUNDINGS; DATA RATES; ESPRIT ALGORITHMS; FUTURE WIRELESS SYSTEMS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; MI MO CHANNELS; MULTI PATH; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE- OUTPUT (MIMO); PARAMETERS ESTIMATION; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP (WLL);

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 47649109410     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2007.204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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