Experiments With Compact Antenna Arrays for MIMO Radio Communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3239-3250

  Browne, D W ^a   Fitz, Michael P ^a,b   Manteghi, M ^a   Rahmat Samii, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; channel capacity; mobile antennas; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008006385     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.883973     Document Type: Article

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