A Time Reversal Transmission Approach for Multiuser UWB Communications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3216-3224

  Nguyen, Hung Tuan ^a   Friedrich Eggers, Patrick Claus ^a   Kovacs, Istvan Zsolt ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Multiple elements antenna; multiple input single output (MISO) system; spatial focusing; time reversal (TR) techniques; ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008020004     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.883959     Document Type: Article

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