Direction-of-arrival estimation system for multipath propagation in code-division multiple-access systems with synthesized virtual planar array using pilot signals

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2153-2163

  Hirota, Akimichi ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^b   Nakano, Masayuki ^c  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KDDI R AND D LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Code division multiple access; Code division multiple access (CDMA); Direction of arrival (DOA) waves estimation; Multiple signal classification (MUSIC); T shaped array antenna

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; BINARY SEQUENCES; CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL (DOA); DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL (DOA) ESTIMATIONS; MULTI PATH; MULTIPLE ACCESS (MA) SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ACCESS (MAC); OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; PILOT SIGNALS; PLANAR ARRAYS; SIMULATION RESULTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 48749123358     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.912173     Document Type: Article

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