Millimeter wave MIMO with lens antenna array: A new path division multiplexing paradigm

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1557-1571

  Zeng, Yong ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Lens antenna array; Millimeter wave communications; MIMO; Path division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST REDUCTION; COSTS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS; MULTIPLEXING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

COST-EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATIONS; FUTURE WIRELESS SYSTEMS; MILLIMETER WAVES (MMWAVE); MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; MM-WAVE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY CHAINS; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING;

LENS ANTENNAS;

EID: 84964273827     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2016.2533490     Document Type: Article

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