Linear transmit beamforming techniques for the multigroup multicast scenario

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 4353-4367

  Silva, Yuri C B ^a,b   Klein, Anja ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Multicast transmission; Spatial division multiple access (SDMA); Transmit beamforming

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING ALGORITHMS; MASS CONTENT; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; MINIMUM MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; MOBILE TELEVISION; MULTI-ANTENNA WIRELESS; MULTI-GROUP; MULTICAST GROUPS; MULTICAST SCENARIOS; MULTICAST SERVICES; MULTICAST SYSTEMS; MULTICAST TRANSMISSION; MULTICAST TRANSMISSIONS; MULTICASTS; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS SYSTEMS; RELAY STATIONS; RESOURCE SHARING; SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE PLUS NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (SDMA); TRANSMIT BEAMFORMING; USER TERMINALS; ZERO-FORCING;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MODEL STRUCTURES; MULTICASTING; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; TELEVISION NETWORKS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 70350218589     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2021603     Document Type: Article

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