Channel sounding for the masses: Low complexity GNU 802.11b channel impulse response estimation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Maas, Dustin ^a   Firooz, Mohammad H ^b   Zhang, Junxing ^c   Patwari, Neal ^a   Kasera, Sneha K ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c Inner Mongolia University College of Computer Science ^*  (China)

Author keywords

channel impulse response; GNU radio; IEEE 802.11b; multipath; Radio channel measurement; RF propagation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE; GNU RADIO; IEEE 802.11B; MULTI-PATH; RADIO CHANNEL MEASUREMENT; RF PROPAGATION;

BUILDING CODES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK LAYERS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; STANDARDS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 84856422972     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.111611.091774     Document Type: Article

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