Impact of antenna pattern and handset rotation on macro-cell and pico-cell propagation in heterogeneous LTE networks

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mellios, Evangelos ^a   Mansor, Zuhanis ^a   Hilton, Geoffrey S ^a   Nix, Andrew R ^a   McGeehan, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-OF-ARRIVAL; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; HANDSET ANTENNA; K-FACTOR; PICO-CELL; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; RANDOM USERS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RMS DELAY SPREAD; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; USER LOCATION;

ANTENNAS; BASE STATIONS; CYTOLOGY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); TELEPHONE SETS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLS;

EID: 84870569480     PISSN: 15223965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.2012.6348849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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