MIMO channel sounder based on two network analyzers

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2052-2058

  Molina Garcia Pardo, Jose Maria ^a   Rodríguez, José Vićtor ^a   Juan Llacer, Leandro ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Channel sounding; Multiple input multipleoutput (MIMO) systems; Network analyzer (NA)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLEXING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

900 MHZ; CHANNEL SOUNDERS; CHANNEL SOUNDING; CONFIGURABILITY; DEDICATED SYSTEMS; GENERAL-PURPOSE INTERFACE BUSES; MEASUREMENT PROCESSES; MI MO CHANNELS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT MIMO); MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLEOUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS; NETWORK ANALYZER (NA); POSITIONING SYSTEMS; PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS CHANNELS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK WLAN); WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 49549110034     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.922091     Document Type: Article

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