Improving MIMO capacity with directive antennas for outdoor-indoor scenarios

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2177-2181

  Hermosilla, Cesar ^a   Feick, Rodolfo ^a   Valenzuela, Reinaldo ^b   Ahumada, Luciano ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Channel modeling; Fading channels; MIMO capacity; Propagation measurements

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA GAINS; CHANNEL MODELING; DIRECTIVITY; FREE SPACE; IN-BETWEEN; INDOOR CHANNELS; ISOTROPIC PROPAGATION; MIMO CAPACITY; MIMO PROCESSING; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; RADIO CHANNELS; RAYLEIGH; RECEIVED POWER;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MULTIPLEXING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 67649398988     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.070662     Document Type: Article

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