Multiple antenna reception at 5.8 and 10 GHz for body-centric wireless communication channels

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 248-255

  Khan, I ^a,b   Hall, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Correlation; Diversity gain; Fading channels; On body channels

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING (RADIO);

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; CORRELATION; DIVERSITY GAIN; DIVERSITY PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE ANTENNAS; ON-BODY CHANNELS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CHANNELS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 63149153988     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2009742     Document Type: Article

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