Synchronization for cascaded distributed MIMO communications

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 387-392

  Gao, Zhen ^a   Chang, Yong Jun ^b   Ingram, Mary Ann ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DISTRIBUTED MIMO; ERROR MODEL; MULTIHOP TRANSMISSION; SAMPLE VARIANCE; SYNCHRONIZATION SCHEME; TIME OFFSETS;

COMMUNICATION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 79951623497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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