An Estimate of the Capacity of the Meteor Burst Channel

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1984, Pages 972-974

  Weitzen, Jay A ^a   Birkemeier, William P ^b   Grossi, Mario D ^c  

^a Signatron Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOR BURST CHANNEL;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0021482110     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOM.1984.1096154     Document Type: Article

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