Fading distributions and co-channel interference in wireless systems

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 150-159

  Yacoub, Michel Daoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Co channel interference; Electromagnetic propagation; Fading distributions; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Microwave propagation; Outage probability; Reuse pattern; UHF propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000406240     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.826357     Document Type: Article

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