A look at the concept of channel capacity from a Maxwellian viewpoint

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 21-50

  Sarkar, Tapan K ^a   Burintramart, Santana ^a   Yllmazer, Nurl ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Del, Arijit ^a   Salazar Palma, Magdalena ^b   Lagunas, Miguel A ^c   Mokole, Eric L ^d   Wicks, Michael C ^e  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel capacity; Communication systems; Entropy; Far field; Hartley's law; Information rates; Information transmission; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Maxwellian physics; Near field; Poynting theorem; Shannon channel capacity; Wireless communication systems; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION; VECTORS;

ACTIVE AREAS; BACKGROUND NOISES; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRICAL TUNING; ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRO-MAGNETICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUATIONS; ENTROPY; ESSENTIAL POINT; FAR FIELD; FAR FIELDS; HARTLEY'S LAW; INCIDENT FIELDS; INFORMATION RATES; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; LAND MOBILE RADIO CELLULAR SYSTEMS; LINE-OF-SIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATIONS; MAXWELLIAN PHYSICS; NEAR FIELD; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD EFFECTS; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; POINT SOURCES; POWER CONSTRAINTS; POYNTING THEOREM; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; RADIATION EFFICIENCIES; RECEIVED POWER; SHANNON CHANNEL CAPACITY; SINGLE INPUT - SINGLE OUTPUT; STATISTICAL FORMULATION; VECTOR NATURE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LAN; WIRELESS SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

EID: 48949095133     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2008.4563562     Document Type: Article

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