The impact of antenna directivity on the small-scale fading in indoor environments

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3771-3777

  Goodman, Nathan A ^a   Melde, Kathleen L ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor propagation; Multipath fading; Propagation; Rician fading models

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DIRECTIVITY; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; FADING STATISTICS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR PROPAGATION; INDOOR PROPAGATION CHANNELS; LINE-OF-SIGHT CHANNELS; MEASURED RESULTS; NAKAGAMI; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PROPAGATION MODELS; RECEIVE ANTENNA; RICIAN FADING; SIMULATED RESULTS; SMALL-SCALE FADING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FADING CHANNELS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77950624219     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.886530     Document Type: Article

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