Indoor terahertz communications: How many antenna arrays are needed?

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3097-3107

  Lin, Cen ^a   Li, Geoffrey Ye ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

antenna array; ergodic capacity; hybrid beamforming; phase uncertainty; Saleh Valenzuela channel model; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPLEX NETWORKS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHANNEL MODEL; ERGODIC CAPACITY; HYBRID BEAMFORMING; PHASE UNCERTAINTIES; TERA HERTZ;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS;

EID: 84933575036     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2401560     Document Type: Article

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