Measurement-based evaluation of vertical separation MIMO antennas for base station

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 415-418

  Xie, Weiliang ^a   Yang, Tao ^a   Zhu, Xuetian ^a   Yang, Fengyi ^a   Bi, Qi ^a  

^a China Telecom   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna radiation patterns; antennas; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems; separation

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA CONFIGURATIONS; DRIVE TEST; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MIMO ANTENNA; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEMS; MUTUAL COUPLING; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING; VERTICAL SEPARATION;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BASE STATIONS; SEPARATION; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84860527458     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2012.2194688     Document Type: Article

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