Characterization of the indoor multiantenna body-to-body radio channel

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART. 1, 2009, Pages 972-979

  Wang, Yu ^a   Bonev, Ivan B ^a   Nielsen, Jesper Ø ^a   Kovacs, István Z ^b   Pedersen, Gert F ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Nokia Siemens Networks R and D   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body shadowing; Body to body communication; Selection diversity

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SIMULATIONS; BODY SHADOWING; BODY-TO-BODY COMMUNICATION; CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATIONS; CHANNEL-STATE INFORMATIONS; DISTRIBUTED ANTENNAS; DIVERSITY GAINS; MULTI ANTENNAS; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE ANTENNAS; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS; PATH LOSS; POWER LOSS; RADIO CHANNELS; RECEIVED POWER; SELECTION DIVERSITY; SMALL-SCALE FADING; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TIME DOMAINS; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVERS; WIDE BANDS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHARACTERIZATION; COMMUNICATION; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; STATE FEEDBACK; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 65549118305     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2014580     Document Type: Article

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