Beamforming via large and dense antenna arrays above a clutter

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 314-325

  Alrabadi, Osama N ^a   Tsakalaki, Elpiniki ^a   Huang, Howard ^b   Pedersen, Gert F ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; Capacity; Clustering channels; EM Coupling; High Order Sectorization; Large Arrays; MIMO

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY; CLUSTERING CHANNELS; EM COUPLING; LARGE ARRAYS; SECTORIZATION;

BEAMFORMING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); MIMO SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 84872939944     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130218     Document Type: Article

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