Reverberation-chamber test environment for outdoor urban wireless propagation studies

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages 52-56

  Fielitz, Helge ^a   Remley, Kate A ^b   Holloway, Christopher L ^b   Zhang, Qian ^c   Wu, Qiong ^c   Matolak, David W ^c  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Ohio University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fading simulator; Power delay profile; Reverberation chamber; Wireless device testing

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; FADING SIMULATORS; MULTIPLE DISTRIBUTION; POWER DELAY PROFILES; REVERBERATION CHAMBERS; TEST ENVIRONMENT; TEST SETUPS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS PROPAGATION;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; CHANNEL CAPACITY; RAYLEIGH FADING; REFLECTION; SIMULATORS; URBAN PLANNING;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 77949359857     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2010.2042272     Document Type: Article

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