A wideband frequency-domain channel-sounding system and delay-spread measurements at the license-free 57- to 64-GHz band

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 519-526

  Siamarou, Andreas G ^a   Al Nuaimi, Miqdad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave channel sounding; Millimeter wave propagation and measurements; Mobile wireless communications; Wideband measurements; Wireless personal area networks (WPANs)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; CONSTANT POWER; DELAY SPREAD; FREQUENCY RESOLUTIONS; GHZ BAND; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; INDOOR RADIO CHANNEL; MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIPATH DISPERSIONS; NON-LINEARITY; OMNI-DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; PICO-CELL; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SWEPT-FREQUENCY; TERMINAL STATIONS; WIDE BAND FREQUENCIES; WIDEBAND MEASUREMENTS; WIDEBAND PROPAGATION; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; HORN ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 76849097971     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2023105     Document Type: Article

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