Spatial Fading Correlation model using mixtures of von Mises Fisher distributions

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2046-2055

  Mammasis, Konstantinos ^a   Stewart, Robert W ^a   Thompson, John S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Mixture of distributions; Spatial fading correlation function; Uniform circular array; Von Mises Fisher distribution

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; ANTENNA TOPOLOGY; DIRECTIONAL STATISTICS; DRIVE TEST; EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GERMANY; MIXTURE MODELING; MIXTURE OF DISTRIBUTIONS; MODEL FIT; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; POWER AZIMUTH; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL FADING CORRELATION; SPATIAL FADING CORRELATION FUNCTION; UNIFORM CIRCULAR ARRAY; UNIFORM CIRCULAR ARRAYS; VON MISES FISHER DISTRIBUTION; VON MISES FISHERS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIXTURES; MULTIPLEXING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 66049160886     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080505     Document Type: Article

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