A compact six-port dielectric resonator antenna array: MIMO channel measurements and performance analysis

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1369-1379

  Tian, Ruiyuan ^a   Plicanic, Vanja ^a,b   Lau, Buon Kiong ^a   Ying, Zhinong ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antenna diversity; Dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs); MIMO systems; Polarization

Indexed keywords

ANGLE DIVERSITY; ANTENNA DESIGN; ANTENNA DIVERSITY; CHANNEL GAINS; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS; DIELECTRIC RESONATOR ANTENNAS (DRAS); DUAL-POLARIZED; GROUND PLANES; LINE-OF-SIGHT SCENARIOS; LINEAR CAPACITY; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; MIMO CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; MONOPOLE ARRAYS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA SYSTEMS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; OUTAGE CAPACITY; PATCH ANTENNA; PATCH ARRAYS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE SIGNALS; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SIX-PORT; SPATIAL DEGREES; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; TERMINAL DEVICES;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DECODING; DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MIMO SYSTEMS; OUTAGES; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

MONOPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77950842119     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2010.2041174     Document Type: Article

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