Repeatable performance measurements of MIMO systems in connected reverberation chambers with controlled keyhole effect

Radioengineering

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 454-459

  Orlenius, Charlie ^a,b   Andersson, Mats ^a  

^a BLUETEST AB   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antenna characterization; MIMO; Multiple Input Multiple Output; Reverberation chamber

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955338295     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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