Characterization of measured indoor off-body MIMO channels with correlated fading, correlated shadowing and constant path loss

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 712-721

  Van Torre, Patrick ^a,b   Vallozzi, Luigi ^a   Jacobs, Lennert ^a   Rogier, Hendrik ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a   Verhaevert, Jo ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

body centric communications; MIMO channel; MIMO systems

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SYSTEM; BIT-ERRORS; CAPACITY CHARACTERISTICS; CHANNEL BEHAVIOR; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; CORRELATED FADING; CORRELATED LOGNORMAL SHADOWING; CORRELATED SHADOWING; DEDICATED CHANNELS; FADING CORRELATION; HUMAN BODIES; MEASURED CHANNEL; MIMO CHANNEL; MOBILE USERS; OFF-BODY COMMUNICATIONS; PATH LOSS; PHYSICAL LAYOUT; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; SHADOWING CORRELATION; SMALL-SCALE FADING; WIRELESS MIMO;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MIMO SYSTEMS; RAYLEIGH FADING; WEARABLE ANTENNAS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 84857360703     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.111611.110298     Document Type: Article

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