Optimum Utilization of the Channel Capacity of a Satellite Link in the Presence of Amplitude Scintillations and Rain Attenuation

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1990, Pages 1958-1965

  Filip, Miodrag ^a   Vilar, Enric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY--COMMUNICATION CHANNELS; RADIO TRANSMISSION--FADING; RAIN AND RAINFALL; STATISTICAL METHODS--APPLICATIONS;

AMPLITUDE SCINTILLATIONS; BIT ERROR RATE (BER); CHANNEL CAPACITY OPTIMUM UTILIZATION; RAIN ATTENUATION; SATELLITE CHANNEL CAPACITY; STATISTICAL MODELS;

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS, SATELLITE;

EID: 0025519385     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.61477     Document Type: Article

References (13)

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