A Survey of the Challenges, Opportunities and Use of Multiple Antennas in Current and Future 5G Small Cell Base Stations

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 2952-2964

  Muirhead, David ^a   Imran, Muhammad Ali ^a   Arshad, Kamran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b AJMAN UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

5G; Multiple antennas; small cell base stations

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; SURVEYS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CURRENT GENERATION; EVOLUTIONARY STAGE; MULTIPLE ANTENNA; MULTIPLE ANTENNA TECHNIQUES; SMALL CELLS; STATE-OF-THE ART REVIEWS; WIRELESS BASE STATIONS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 85006227438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2569483     Document Type: Review

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