Evaluation of a statistical model for the characterization of multipath affecting mobile terminal GPS antennas in sub-urban areas

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 1084-1094

  Ur Rehman, M ^a   Chen, X ^a   Parini, C G ^a   Ying, Z ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environment effects; GPS antennas; Multipath interference; Wireless networks

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENT EFFECTS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FREE SPACE; GPS ANTENNA; GPS ANTENNAS; GPS COVERAGE; GPS SATELLITES; INCIDENT POWER; MEAN EFFECTIVE GAIN; MOBILE TERMINAL; MULTI-PATH; MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE; PERPENDICULAR POLARIZATION; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; STATISTICAL MODELS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER TERMINALS; MOBILE PHONES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 84863067762     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2173134     Document Type: Article

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