Measurement-based analysis of spatial degrees of freedom in multipath propagation channels

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 890-900

  Haneda, Katsuyuki ^a   Khatun, Afroza ^a   Dashti, Marzieh ^b,c   Laitinen, Tommi A ^a   Kolmonen, Veli Matti ^a   Takada, Jun Ichi ^b   Vainikainen, Pertti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel sounding; spatial degrees of freedom (DoF); spherical wave expansion

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MECHANICS; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SPHERES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

ANALYSIS METHOD; ANGULAR RANGE; ANTENNA APERTURE; ANTENNA ELEMENT; APERTURE SIZES; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL SOUNDING; DOMINANT MULTIPATH; ESTIMATION METHODS; FIXED FREQUENCY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; INDOOR MULTIPATH CHANNEL; LINE-OF-SIGHT CHANNELS; MEASUREMENT-BASED; MULTIPLE INPUT SINGLE OUTPUTS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; SOLID ANGLE; SPATIAL DEGREES; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84873339474     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2223431     Document Type: Article

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