Feasibility of a millimeter-wave MIMO System for short-range wireless communications in an underground gold mine

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4296-4305

  Ben Mabrouk, Ismail ^a   Hautcoeur, Julien ^a   Talbi, Larbi ^a   Nedil, Mourad ^b   Hettak, Khelifa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Millimeter wavelength; multipath; propagation; underground mine

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; MIMO SYSTEMS; MINERS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MILLIMETER WAVE (MMW); MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; MULTIPATH; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT SYSTEMS; SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS; SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNDERGROUND MINE;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 84881274787     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2013.2259454     Document Type: Article

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