Optimal sliding correlator channel sounder design

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3488-3497

  Pirkl, Ryan J ^a,b   Durgin, Gregory D ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel sounder design; Sliding correlator; Spread spectrum; Swept time delay; Wireless channel measurements

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCIES; CHANNEL SOUNDER DESIGN; CHANNEL SOUNDERS; CORRELATOR; DESIGN PROCEDURES; DOPPLER RESOLUTIONS; DYNAMIC RANGE; MULTIPLE ANTENNAS; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL LEVELS; PROCESSING GAIN; RADIO PROPAGATION CHANNELS; SLIDING CORRELATOR; SPREAD SPECTRUM; SWEPT TIME-DELAY; SYSTEM PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; WIRELESS CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; RADIO SYSTEMS;

LAWS AND LEGISLATION;

EID: 52349120907     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.070278     Document Type: Article

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