A statistical approach to model antenna radiation patterns in off-body radio channels

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1091-1095

  Maćkowiak, Michał ^a   Correia, Luís M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERNS; DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN BODY TISSUES; PRELIMINARY MODEL; RADIATION PATTERNS; RADIO CHANNELS; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

ANTENNAS; HISTOLOGY; RADIO COMMUNICATION; STATISTICS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 78751530641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5672073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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