Distributed transmit beamforming: Challenges and recent progress

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 102-110

  Mudumbai, Raghuraman ^a   Brown III, D Richard ^b   Madhow, Upamanyu ^c   Poor, H Vincent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antennas and propagation; Array signal processing; Gain; Master slave; Signal to noise ratio; Synchronization; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION; ARRAY SIGNAL PROCESSING; GAIN; MASTER-SLAVE; TIMING;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 62149087803     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2009.4785387     Document Type: Review

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