Efficient experimental evaluation of a MIMO handset with user influence

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 853-863

  Harrysson, Fredrik ^a,b   Medbo, Jonas ^a   Molisch, Andreas F ^c   Johansson, Anders J ^b   Tufvesson, Fredrik ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Channel measurement; Channel model; Mobile communication; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); User phantom

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ELEMENT; ANTENNA PATTERN; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; COMPOSITE CHANNEL; COMPOSITE METHOD; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DIRECTIONAL MEASUREMENT; EIGENVALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; EIGENVALUES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HANDSET ANTENNA; IMMEDIATE ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RADIO CHANNELS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FADING (RADIO); MOBILE ANTENNAS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SETS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 76949101959     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.02.090588     Document Type: Article

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