Landmobile radiowave multipaths' DOA-distribution: Assessing geometric models by the open literature's empirical datasets

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 946-958

  Wong, Kainam Thomas ^a   Wu, Yue Ivan ^a   Abdulla, Minaz ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Communication channels; Direction of arrival (DOA); Dispersive channels; Fading channels; Geometric modeling; Multipath channels; Scatter channels

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH ANGLES; AZIMUTH DIRECTION; CLOSED FORM; CLOSED-FORM FORMULAE; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DISPERSIVE CHANNELS; EMPIRICAL DATA; FITTING MODEL; GAUSSIAN DENSITY; GEOMETRIC MODELING; GEOMETRIC MODELS; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; MODEL-BASED; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; MULTIPATHS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION; SPATIAL GEOMETRY; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; FADING (RADIO); GEOMETRY; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; SCATTERING; TRANSMITTERS;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77749341499     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2037698     Document Type: Article

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