MIMO LTE OTA measurements in reverberation chamber: Rich isotropic reference environment makes agreement with theoretical system model

Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1536-1539

  Kildal, Per Simon ^a,b,c   Orlenius, Charlie ^a,b,c   Carlberg, Ulf ^a,b,c  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b BLUETEST AB   (Sweden)

^c SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RATES; DIGITAL RECEIVERS; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; RECEIVED POWER; REVERBERATION CHAMBERS; THEORETICAL MODELS; THEORETICAL SYSTEM; WIRELESS DEVICES;

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA RADIATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; REVERBERATION;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84862878925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCAP.2012.6206564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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