Reverse-link interrogation range of a UHF MIMO-RFID system in Nakagami-m fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1468-1477

  Kim, Do Yun ^a   Jo, Han Shin ^a   Yoon, Hyungoo ^b   Mun, Cheol ^c   Jang, Byung Jun ^d   Yook, Jong Gwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Myong Ji University   (South Korea)

^c Chungju National University   (South Korea)

^d Kookmin University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Arbitrarily correlated Nakagami m fading; Pinhole channel; Reverse link interrogation range (RIR); Single input and single output (SISO) multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) radio frequency identification (RFID)

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CORRELATED NAKAGAMI-M FADING; IMPERFECT CHANNEL ESTIMATION; MAXIMAL-RATIO COMBINING; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE INPUT AND MULTIPLE OUTPUT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE INPUT AND MULTIPLE OUTPUTS; NAKAGAMI-M; NAKAGAMI-M DISTRIBUTION; NAKAGAMI-M FADING CHANNELS; PERFECT CHANNELS; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; RFID SYSTEMS;

ANTENNAS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; FADING CHANNELS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 77949352794     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2030134     Document Type: Article

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