International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 306173, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/306173
Research Article

Effect of Antenna Mutual Coupling on MIMO Channel Estimation and Capacity

School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

Received 2 December 2009; Accepted 17 January 2010

Academic Editor: Hon Tat Hui

Copyright © 2010 Xia Liu and Marek E. Bialkowski. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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