On the channel and signal cross correlation of downlink and uplink mobile UHF DTV channels with antenna diversity

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-248

  Pham, Viet Ha ^a   Chouinard, Jean Yves ^a   Semmar, Assia ^a   Wang, Xianbin ^b   Wu, Yiyan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

ATSC; Mobile UHF DTV channel; Receive antenna diversity; Spatial cross correlation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA DIVERSITY; BROADCAST CHANNELS; CHANNEL PHASE; COMPLEX CHANNELS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ENVELOPE CORRELATION; ENVELOPE CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MOBILE WIRELESS; MODULATION SCHEMES; NEW RESULTS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; PHASE INFORMATION; RE-EVALUATION; RECEIVE ANTENNA DIVERSITY; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SPACE TIME CODE; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; TRACKING ALGORITHM; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL; TV CHANNELS; UPLINK CHANNEL; WIDE-BAND; WIRELESS APPLICATION;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CORRELATION METHODS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCY BANDS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TELEVISION APPLICATIONS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

EID: 77953025620     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2010.2042501     Document Type: Article

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