Fading Statistics for Multi-Antenna RF Tags

Handbook of Smart Antennas for RFID Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 469-495

  Griffin, Joshua David ^a   Durgin, Gregory D ^b  

^a DISNEY RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity gains in dyadic backscatter channel; Fading statistics for multi antenna RF tags; Firm understanding of probability density functions (PDF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886016066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470872178.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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