On the Feasibility of Wireless Energy Transfer Using Massive Antenna Arrays

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3466-3480

  Kashyap, Salil ^a   Björnson, Emil ^a   Larsson, Erik G ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

array gain; beamforming; massive MIMO; outage probability; Wireless energy transfer

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BEAMFORMING; ENERGY TRANSFER; FADING CHANNELS; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSMISSION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MIMO SYSTEMS; OUTAGES; PROBABILITY; SENSOR NODES;

ARRAY GAIN; LINE-OF-SIGHT COMPONENTS; MINIMUM MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; MULTIPLE ANTENNA ARRAYS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY OF OUTAGE; WIRELESS ENERGY TRANSFERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

BEAM FORMING NETWORKS;

EID: 84969750925     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2016.2521739     Document Type: Article

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