On the applicability of MIMO principle to 10-66GHz BFWA networks: Capacity enhancement through spatial multiplexing and interference reduction through selection diversity

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 530-541

  Liolis, Konstantinos P ^a,b   Panagopoulos, Athanasios D ^b   Cottis, Panayotis G ^b   Rao, Bhaskar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS NTUA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA); Cochannel interference; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Outage capacity; Rain fading; Selection diversity; Spatial multiplexing; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE; INTEROPERABILITY; MIM DEVICES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OUTAGES; RAIN; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BROADBAND FIXED WIRELESS ACCESS (BFWA); MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); OUTAGE CAPACITY; RAIN FADING; SELECTION DIVERSITY; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING;

MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE;

EID: 61649083765     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.02.060474     Document Type: Article

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