Characterisation of a time-variant wireless propagation channel for outdoor short-range sensor networks

IET Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-264

  Wyne, S ^a   Santos, T ^a   Singh, A P ^b   Tufvesson, F ^a   Molisch, A F ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; CONTROLLED MOTIONS; DOPPLER SPECTRA; GENERIC APPROACH; LINE-OF-SIGHT PATHS; MEASURED CHANNEL; NONSTATIONARY; PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RADIO CHANNELS; RANGE SENSORS; RECEIVE ANTENNA; SCATTERED COMPONENT; SIGNAL FLUCTUATIONS; TIME VARIANT; TIME VARYING; WIRELESS PROPAGATION CHANNELS;

RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 75649092978     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2009.0117     Document Type: Article

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