An overview of ultra-wide-band systems with MIMO

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-312

  Kaiser, Thomas ^a   Zheng, Feng ^a   Dimitrov, Emil ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Channel capacity; MIMO; Space time coding; Ultra wide band communications

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; BEAM FORMING NETWORKS; BEAMFORMING; BLOCK CODES; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; EFFICIENCY; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

MULTIPLE RECEIVE ANTENNAS; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE ANTENNAS; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT AND SINGLE RECEIVE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE TRANSMIT ANTENNAS; SPACE TIME CODING; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING GAIN; ULTRA-WIDEBAND COMMUNICATIONS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 62949225653     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2008784     Document Type: Article

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