A compact reverberation chamber for hyper-rayleigh channel emulation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3962-3968

  Frolik, Jeff ^a   Weller, Thomas M ^b   DiStasi, Stephen ^a,c   Cooper, James ^b  

^a University of Vermont   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c MicroStrain Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication channels; Communication equipment testing; Fading channels; Multipath channels

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CHANNEL EMULATORS; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT TESTING; COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENTS; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; FADING ENVIRONMENT; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE; HYPER-RAYLEIGH; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; PROPAGATION EFFECT; PROPAGATION MEASUREMENTS; RAYLEIGH; RE-CONFIGURABLE; REVERBERATION CHAMBERS; THEORETICAL MODELS; VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM; WORST-CASE CHANNEL;

AD HOC NETWORKS; ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; ANTENNAS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EQUIPMENT TESTING; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RAYLEIGH FADING; REVERBERATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 72649086574     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027725     Document Type: Article

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