A Radio Channel Sounder for Mobile Millimeter-Wave Communications: System Implementation and Measurement Assessment

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2924-2932

  Papazian, Peter B ^a   Gentile, Camillo ^a   Remley, Kate A ^a   Senic, Jelena ^a   Golmie, Nada ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular communication; channel sounder; millimeter wave (mm wave) communication; propagation channel; system level measurement; wireless system

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; BUDGET CONTROL; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; DIRECTIVE ANTENNAS; HARDWARE; IMPULSE RESPONSE; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

AZIMUTH AND ELEVATION ANGLES; CHANNEL IMPULSE RESPONSE; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; MEASUREMENT ASSESSMENT; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MM-WAVE); MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION; MULTI-PATH COMPONENTS; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 84981335411     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2016.2592530     Document Type: Article

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