Diversity gain through antenna blocking

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Dehghanian, V ^a   Nielsen, J ^a   Lachapelle, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTABILITY; DIVERSITY GAIN; HAND-HELD RECEIVERS; MEASUREMENT SETUP; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; PATTERN CHANGE; RADIATION CHARACTERISTICS; RANDOM VARIATION; SINGLE ANTENNA; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ANTENNA RADIATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84856507154     PISSN: 16875869     EISSN: 16875877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/735080     Document Type: Article

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