Beamforming effects on measured mm-wave channel characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3553-3559

  Wyne, Shurjeel ^a   Haneda, Katsuyuki ^b   Ranvier, Sylvain ^c   Tufvesson, Fredrik ^d   Molisch, Andreas F ^e  

^a Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

60 GHz communications; beamforming; delay spread; measurements; radio channel

Indexed keywords

60 GHZ BAND; ARRAY GAIN; ARRAY SIZES; BEAMFORMERS; CHANNEL CHARACTERISTICS; DELAY SPREAD; EIGENMODE TRANSMISSION; EXCESS DELAY; LINE-OF-SIGHT SCENARIOS; MM-WAVE; NARROW BANDS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PLANAR ARRAYS; RADIO CHANNEL; SCATTERING ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO; UPPER BOUND; UPPER LIMITS; WIDE-BAND;

ARRAY PROCESSING; MEASUREMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BEAMFORMING;

EID: 83555164794     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.083111.100195     Document Type: Article

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